Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 8

Bristlecone pines grow very slowly in harsh mountain places and can live for nearly five thousand years; one called Methuselah is over four thousand years old.

Who acts: Bristlecone pines, one · What happens: grow, live, call, be · To what, where: harsh mountain places · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bristlecone pines, one), 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	Bristlecone	Bristlecone	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pines	compound
2	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 places	case
7	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 places	amod
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 places	compound
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 live	cc
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 live	aux
12	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	15 five	advmod
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 thousand	compound
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 live	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 old	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 old	nsubj
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 one	acl
21	Methuselah	Methuselah	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 old	cop
23	over	over	ADV	_	25 thousand	advmod
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 thousand	compound
25	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 years	nummod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 old	obl:unmarked
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Bristlecone pines	harsh mountain places		slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
2	live	can	Bristlecone pines not said here		year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	participle					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	one		year	old property	tree rules

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:8.

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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