Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 1
A giant sequoia called General Sherman is so wide that a family car could park across its trunk, and it has been growing for thousands of years behind bark thick enough to survive forest fires.
Who acts: giant sequoia, family car, sequoia · What happens: call, be, park, grow, survive · To what, where: giant sequoia, trunk, bark, forest fires · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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 (giant sequoia, family car, sequoia), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sequoia | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sequoia | amod |
| 3 | sequoia | sequoia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wide | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sequoia | acl |
| 5 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sherman | compound |
| 6 | Sherman | Sherman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wide | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 wide | advmod |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 park | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 car | det |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 car | compound |
| 13 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 park | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 park | aux |
| 15 | park | park | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wide | ccomp |
| 16 | across | across | ADP | _ | 18 trunk | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 18 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 park | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 growing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 growing | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 growing | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 growing | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 growing | aux |
| 24 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wide | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 thousands | case |
| 26 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 growing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 years | case |
| 28 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 thousands | nmod |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 30 bark | case |
| 30 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 growing | obl |
| 31 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bark | amod |
| 32 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 31 thick | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 survive | mark |
| 34 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 thick | advcl |
| 35 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fires | compound |
| 36 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 survive | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a giant sequoia not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a giant sequoia | wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | park | could | a family car | car's trunk | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | grow | present · perfect · progressive | sequoia | bark | for thousands of years | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind bark=Location | |||
| 5 | survive | to-infinitive | sequoia not said here | forest fires | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Circumstance |
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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:1.
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): 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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