Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees, sentence 17
Mountain ash eucalyptus trees in Tasmania and Victoria are the tallest flowering plants, up to about 100 metres (redwoods are taller but carry cones, not flowers), and they need fire to make new seedlings.
Who acts: eucalyptus trees, redwoods, cones · What happens: flower, be, carry, need, make · To what, where: tallest flowering plants, cones, fire, new seedlings
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 (eucalyptus trees, redwoods, cones), 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 | Mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ash | compound |
| 2 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eucalyptus | compound |
| 3 | eucalyptus | eucalyptus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | compound |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 plants | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Tasmania | case |
| 6 | Tasmania | Tasmania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Victoria | cc |
| 8 | Victoria | Victoria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tasmania | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 plants | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plants | det |
| 11 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 plants | amod |
| 12 | flowering | flower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 plants | amod |
| 13 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 metres | punct |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 metres | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 up | fixed |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 100 | advmod |
| 18 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 metres | nummod |
| 19 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 plants | obl |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 taller | punct |
| 21 | redwoods | redwood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 taller | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 taller | cop |
| 23 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 plants | parataxis |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 carry | cc |
| 25 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 taller | conj |
| 26 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 carry | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 flowers | punct |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 flowers | advmod |
| 29 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 cones | conj |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 taller | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 need | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 need | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 need | nsubj |
| 34 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 plants | conj |
| 35 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 need | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 make | mark |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 need | advcl |
| 38 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 seedlings | amod |
| 39 | seedlings | seedling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 make | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 plants | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flower | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | eucalyptus trees in Tasmania and Victoria | the tallest flowering plants | 100 metres obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | redwoods | tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | present | redwoods not said here | cones and flowers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cone=Theme | ||||
| 5 | need | present | cones = cone | fire | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fire=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | cones = cone not said here | new seedlings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seedling=Product |
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:17.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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