The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 0

High above the Amazon floor the tree tops join into a green roof called the canopy, full of sunlight, fruit, flowers and animals that may never touch the ground.

Who acts: tree tops, green roof, animals · What happens: join, call, not touch · To what, where: Amazon floor, canopy, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 (tree tops, green roof, animals), 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	High	high	ADV	_	9 join	advmod
2	above	above	ADP	_	5 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
4	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 floor	compound
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 join	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tops	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tops	compound
8	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 join	nsubj
9	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 roof	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 roof	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 roof	amod
13	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 join	obl
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 roof	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 canopy	det
16	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 full	punct
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 canopy	amod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 sunlight	case
20	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fruit	punct
22	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sunlight	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flowers	punct
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 canopy	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 animals	cc
26	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flowers	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 touch	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 touch	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 touch	advmod
30	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 animals	acl:relcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ground	det
32	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 touch	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 join	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	join	present	the tree tops		the Amazon floor	into a green roof; high property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient into roof=Co-Patient
2	call	participle	a green roof not said here	the canopy and flowers and animals			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent canopy=Recipient
3	not touch	may	animals	the ground			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme

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:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:0.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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