Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 2
Scientists find these ages by counting rings, like the rings in a tree stump or on a clam's shell, one ring for each year of growth.
Who acts: Scientists · What happens: find, count · To what, where: ages, rings
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 (Scientists), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 ages | det |
| 4 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | obj |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 counting | mark |
| 6 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 find | advcl |
| 7 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 counting | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rings | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 rings | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rings | det |
| 11 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rings | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 stump | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stump | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stump | compound |
| 15 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rings | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 shell | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 shell | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 clam | det |
| 19 | clam | clam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shell | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 clam | case |
| 21 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stump | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ring | punct |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 ring | nummod |
| 24 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stump | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 year | case |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 year | det |
| 27 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ring | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 growth | case |
| 29 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 year | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Scientists | this ages | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic | ||||
| 2 | count | gerund | Scientists not said here | rings and the rings in a tree stump or a clam's shell and one ring for each year of growth | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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:2.
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 ×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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