Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees, sentence 2

The oldest trees are often not the biggest but the toughest: twisted, half-dead bristlecone pines on cold dry mountains have lived for nearly 5,000 years.

Who acts: oldest trees, dead bristlecone pines · What happens: not be, be, live

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 (oldest trees, dead bristlecone pines), 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 trees	det
2	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 biggest	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 biggest	cop
5	often	often	ADV	_	8 biggest	advmod
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 biggest	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 biggest	det
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 toughest	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 toughest	det
11	toughest	tough	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 biggest	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 twisted	punct
13	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 toughest	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lived	punct
15	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 dead	advmod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 half	punct
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pines	amod
18	bristlecone	bristlecone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pines	compound
19	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lived	nsubj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 mountains	case
21	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mountains	amod
22	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mountains	amod
23	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pines	nmod
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 lived	aux
25	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 toughest	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 years	case
27	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	28 5,000	advmod
28	5,000	5000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lived	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 biggest	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the oldest trees		big, often property	tree rules
2	be		the oldest trees not said here			tree rules
3	live	present · perfect	dead bristlecone pines on cold dry mountains	year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:2.

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): R7-rel-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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