Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 1
Some animals and plants live astonishingly long: a clam from Iceland lived about five hundred years, older than Shakespeare, and bristlecone pines on a California mountain have been growing for nearly five thousand years.
Who acts: animals, clam, bristlecone pines · What happens: live, grow
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 (animals, clam, bristlecone pines), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 animals | det |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 plants | cc |
| 4 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 animals | conj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | astonishingly | astonishingly | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 live | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 clam | det |
| 10 | clam | clam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Iceland | case |
| 12 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 clam | nmod |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | parataxis |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 hundred | advmod |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hundred | compound |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 older | punct |
| 19 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 live | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 Shakespeare | case |
| 21 | Shakespeare | Shakespeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 older | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 growing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pines | cc |
| 24 | bristlecone | bristlecone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pines | compound |
| 25 | pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 growing | nsubj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 mountain | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mountain | det |
| 28 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 mountain | compound |
| 29 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pines | nmod |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 growing | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 growing | aux |
| 32 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 live | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 years | case |
| 34 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 35 five | advmod |
| 35 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 thousand | compound |
| 36 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 years | nummod |
| 37 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 growing | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | some animals and plants | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a clam from Iceland | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | present · perfect · progressive | bristlecone pines on a California mountain | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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