Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees, sentence 15

The dawn redwood was known only from fossils until living trees were found in China in the 1940s; seeds were sent round the world and it now grows in many parks.

Who acts: redwood · What happens: know, live, find, send, grow · To what, where: dawn redwood, fossils, living trees, China, seeds, many parks

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 (redwood), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 redwood	det
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 redwood	compound
3	redwood	redwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 known	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 known	aux:pass
5	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 fossils	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 fossils	case
8	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 known	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 found	mark
10	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 trees	amod
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 found	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	aux:pass
13	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 known	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 China	case
15	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 1940s	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 1940s	det
18	1940s	1940	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	13 found	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 seeds	punct
20	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sent	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sent	aux:pass
22	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 found	conj
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sent	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grows	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 grows	nsubj
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 grows	advmod
29	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sent	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 parks	case
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 parks	amod
32	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grows	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 known	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · passive		the dawn redwood	fossils			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	live	gerund						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past · passive		living trees	China		in the 1940s	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	send	past · passive		seeds			round the world	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	grow	present	redwood		many parks	now		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=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:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees.lesson:15.

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 ×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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