The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 6

Rainforests cover only about 6 per cent of Earth's land, but scientists think more than half of all land plant and animal species live in them.

Who acts: Rainforests, scientists, half · What happens: cover, think, live · To what, where: 6 per cent · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rainforests, scientists, half), 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	Rainforests	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cover	nsubj
2	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 6	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 6	advmod
5	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 cent	nummod
6	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cent	compound
7	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cover	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 land	case
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 land	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Earth	case
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cent	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 think	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 think	cc
14	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 think	nsubj
15	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cover	conj
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	18 half	advmod
17	than	than	ADP	_	16 more	fixed
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 live	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	25 species	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 species	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plant	compound
22	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 species	compound
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 animal	cc
24	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 species	conj
25	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 half	nmod
26	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 think	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 live	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cover	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	present	Rainforests	6 per cent of Earth's land		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cent=Destination
2	think speech: other	present	scientists			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	live	present	half of all plant species and animal		in animals = animal	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location

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:6.

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. 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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