Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees, sentence 0
Stand at the foot of a coast redwood in California and the people beside you look like ants: the tallest tree known, Hyperion, is about 116 metres, taller than the Statue of Liberty with its base.
Who acts: you, people, tallest tree · What happens: stand, look, know, be · To what, where: foot, tallest tree, 116 metres
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees» 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 (you, people, tallest tree), 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 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 foot | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 foot | det |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stand | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 redwood | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 redwood | det |
| 7 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 redwood | compound |
| 8 | redwood | redwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 foot | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 California | case |
| 10 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 redwood | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 look | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | nsubj |
| 14 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 look | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 people | nmod |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stand | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 ants | case |
| 18 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 21 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 tree | amod |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 metres | nsubj |
| 23 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tree | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Hyperion | punct |
| 25 | Hyperion | Hyperion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 metres | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 metres | cop |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 116 | advmod |
| 29 | 116 | 116 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 metres | nummod |
| 30 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 taller | punct |
| 32 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 metres | conj |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 Statue | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Statue | det |
| 35 | Statue | statue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 taller | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Liberty | case |
| 37 | Liberty | Liberty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Statue | nmod |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 base | case |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 base | nmod:poss |
| 40 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Statue | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | the foot of a coast redwood in California | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | present | the people you | like ants | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | the tallest tree not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the tallest tree | 116 metres | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the tallest tree not said here | than the Statue of Liberty with tree's base | 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:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees.lesson:0.
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): R8-pos-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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