Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 4

The General Sherman tree in California is the biggest single tree by volume; sequoias live for thousands of years, have thick fire-proof bark, and their cones open with fire.

Who acts: Sherman tree, sequoias, cones · What happens: be, live, have, open · To what, where: biggest single tree, thick proof bark

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 (Sherman tree, sequoias, cones), 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	4 tree	det
2	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sherman	nmod:desc
3	Sherman	Sherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 California	case
6	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tree	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tree	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
9	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 tree	amod
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 volume	case
13	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 live	punct
15	sequoias	sequoia	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 live	nsubj
16	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tree	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 thousands	case
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 live	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 years	case
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thousands	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 live	conj
23	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bark	amod
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 proof	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 fire	punct
26	proof	proof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bark	amod
27	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 open	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 open	cc
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 cones	nmod:poss
31	cones	cone	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 open	nsubj
32	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 live	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 fire	case
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 open	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tree	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Sherman tree in California	the biggest single tree	by volume	tree rules
2	live	present	sequoias		for thousands of years	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	sequoias not said here	thick proof bark		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Patient
4	open	present	thousands's cones		with fire	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.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): 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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