Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 4

The treeline is where trees stop on a mountain, because above it the summer is too short and cool and the wind too strong for trees to grow wood; it is about 4000 metres near the equator but only about 600 metres in Scotland.

Who acts: treeline, summer, wind · What happens: stop, be, grow · To what, where: mountain, wood, 4000 metres, equator

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treeline, summer, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 treeline	det
2	treeline	treeline	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 stop	advmod
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 is	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 mountain	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mountain	det
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 short	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 short	mark
12	above	above	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 because	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 summer	det
15	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 short	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 short	cop
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 short	advmod
18	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stop	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cool	cc
20	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 short	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 strong	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wind	det
23	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 strong	nsubj
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 strong	advmod
25	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 short	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 trees	case
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 strong	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 grow	mark
29	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 strong	advcl
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grow	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 metres	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 metres	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 metres	cop
34	about	about	ADV	_	35 4000	advmod
35	4000	4000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	36 metres	nummod
36	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 short	obl
37	near	near	ADP	_	39 equator	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 equator	det
39	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 metres	nmod
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 metres	cc
41	only	only	ADV	_	42 about	advmod
42	about	about	ADV	_	43 600	advmod
43	600	600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	44 metres	nummod
44	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 metres	conj
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 Scotland	case
46	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 metres	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the treeline		a mountain		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	present	the summer			short property	tree rules
3	be		the summer not said here				tree rules
4	be		the wind			for trees	tree rules
5	grow	to-infinitive	the wind not said here	wood			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme
6	is a	present	wind	4000 metres but 600 metres in Scotland	the equator		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:4.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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