Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 14

Mountain flowers grow low and are often hairy to keep warm against strong sun, cold winds and short summers, and some grow only a few millimetres a year.

Who acts: Mountain flowers, some · What happens: grow, be, keep · To what, where: strong sun, few millimetres

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (Mountain flowers, some), 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	Mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flowers	compound
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hairy	cc
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hairy	cop
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 hairy	advmod
8	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 low	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hairy	advcl
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp
12	against	against	ADP	_	14 sun	case
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sun	amod
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 winds	punct
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 winds	amod
17	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sun	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 summers	cc
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 summers	amod
20	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 winds	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grow	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grow	cc
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 grow	nsubj
24	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
25	only	only	ADV	_	28 millimetres	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 millimetres	det
27	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 millimetres	amod
28	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 grow	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 year	det
30	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grow	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Mountain flowers				low property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Mountain flowers not said here				hairy, often property	tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	Mountain flowers not said here		strong sun and cold winds and short summers		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent against sun=Location
4	grow	present	some	a few millimetres		year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location millimetre=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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:14.

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 ×2, 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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