The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 1

From a helicopter the canopy looks like a green sea of broccoli, and that roof is where most rainforest animals live, because that is where the sunlight, the fruit and the fresh leaves are.

Who acts: canopy, roof, that · What happens: look, be

This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» 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 (canopy, roof, that), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 helicopter	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 helicopter	det
3	helicopter	helicopter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 canopy	det
5	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 sea	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sea	det
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sea	amod
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 broccoli	case
12	broccoli	broccoli	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sea	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 where	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 looks	cc
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 roof	det
16	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 live	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 live	cop
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 live	advmod
19	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 animals	amod
20	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 animals	compound
21	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 live	nsubj
22	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 looks	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 where	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 where	mark
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 where	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 where	cop
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 live	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sunlight	det
29	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 where	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fruit	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fruit	det
32	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sunlight	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 leaves	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 leaves	det
35	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 leaves	amod
36	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sunlight	conj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 where	cop
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	present	the canopy	like a green sea of broccoli; from a helicopter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from helicopter=Theme
2	is	present	that roof	live property	tree rules
3	is	present	that	where 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:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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