Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees, sentence 1

Lift a log from the woodpile and you can count its age: each year a tree adds one ring of wood, pale in spring and darker in late summer.

Who acts: you, tree · What happens: lift, count, add · To what, where: log, woodpile, age, one ring

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, 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	Lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 log	det
3	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lift	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 woodpile	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woodpile	det
6	woodpile	woodpile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lift	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 count	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 count	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 count	aux
10	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lift	conj
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 age	nmod:poss
12	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 count	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 adds	punct
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 adds	obl:unmarked
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 adds	nsubj
18	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 count	parataxis
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 ring	nummod
20	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 adds	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 wood	case
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ring	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pale	punct
24	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ring	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 spring	case
26	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pale	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 darker	cc
28	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 pale	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 summer	case
30	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 summer	amod
31	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 darker	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lift	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lift	imperative	you not said here	a log	the woodpile		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent log=Theme from woodpile=Destination
2	count	can	you	woodpile's age			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme
3	add speech: assert	present	a tree	one ring of wood		year	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient

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: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): 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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