Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 9
Yaks live on the Tibetan plateau, often above 4000 metres, with long thick hair, a woolly undercoat and big lungs and hearts, and they find weather above about 15 degrees hard.
Who acts: Yaks · What happens: live, find · To what, where: Tibetan plateau, weather, 15 degrees
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 (Yaks), 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 | Yaks | yak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 plateau | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plateau | det |
| 5 | Tibetan | Tibetan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plateau | amod |
| 6 | plateau | plateau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 metres | punct |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 metres | advmod |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 metres | case |
| 10 | 4000 | 4000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 metres | nummod |
| 11 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hair | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 hair | case |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hair | amod |
| 15 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hair | amod |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 undercoat | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 undercoat | det |
| 19 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 undercoat | amod |
| 20 | undercoat | undercoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hair | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lungs | cc |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lungs | amod |
| 23 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 undercoat | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hearts | cc |
| 25 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lungs | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 find | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 find | nsubj |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 30 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 find | obj |
| 31 | above | above | ADP | _ | 34 degrees | case |
| 32 | about | about | ADV | _ | 33 15 | advmod |
| 33 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 degrees | nummod |
| 34 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 weather | nmod |
| 35 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 find | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Yaks | the Tibetan plateau | above 4000 metres; with long thick hair and a woolly undercoat and big lungs and hearts | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with hair=Location | |||
| 2 | find | present | yaks = yak | weather | 15 degrees | hard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Topic |
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:9.
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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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