Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 5

Pando in Utah is a group of aspen trees that are all one plant joined by the same roots, and it may be one of the heaviest living things on Earth.

Who acts: Pando, aspen trees, tree, heaviest things · What happens: be, join, live · To what, where: group, one plant, one

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 (Pando, aspen trees, tree, heaviest things), 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	Pando	Pando	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 group	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Utah	case
3	Utah	Utah	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pando	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 group	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 group	det
6	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	aspen	aspen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	compound
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 group	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 plant	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 plant	cop
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 plant	nummod
14	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	acl:relcl
15	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 plant	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 roots	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roots	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 roots	amod
19	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 joined	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 one	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 one	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 one	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 one	cop
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 group	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 things	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 things	det
28	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 things	amod
29	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 things	acl
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 Earth	case
32	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 things	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 group	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pando in Utah	a group	of aspen trees	tree rules
2	is a	present	aspen trees	one plant		tree rules
3	join	participle		one plant not said here	by the same roots	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is a	may	tree	one	of the heaviest things on Earth	tree rules
5	live	gerund	the heaviest things on Earth not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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