Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees, sentence 5
Coast redwoods in California are the tallest trees in the world; the tallest, Hyperion, is about 116 metres, its exact place is kept secret to protect it, and the fog they grow in gives water to their high leaves.
Who acts: Coast redwoods, tallest, metres, fog · What happens: be, keep, protect, grow, give · To what, where: tallest trees, world, 116 metres, exact place, place, fog
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 (Coast redwoods, tallest, metres, fog), 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 | Coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 redwoods | compound |
| 2 | redwoods | redwood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 trees | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 California | case |
| 4 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 redwoods | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 trees | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 7 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 trees | amod |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tallest | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trees | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tallest | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tallest | det |
| 14 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 metres | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hyperion | punct |
| 16 | Hyperion | Hyperion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tallest | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hyperion | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 metres | cop |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 116 | advmod |
| 20 | 116 | 116 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 metres | nummod |
| 21 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kept | punct |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 place | nmod:poss |
| 24 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 place | amod |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 kept | aux:pass |
| 27 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 metres | parataxis |
| 28 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 kept | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 protect | mark |
| 30 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 kept | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 protect | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gives | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 gives | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fog | det |
| 35 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gives | nsubj |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 grow | nsubj |
| 37 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 fog | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 grow | obl |
| 39 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 metres | conj |
| 40 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gives | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 leaves | case |
| 42 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 43 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 leaves | amod |
| 44 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 gives | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trees | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Coast redwoods in California | the tallest trees | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the tallest | 116 metres | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | present · passive | redwood's exact place | secret property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | protect | to-infinitive | place | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | grow | present | metres = metre | the fog not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fog=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give | present | the fog | water | metres's high leaves | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent water=Theme to leaf=Recipient |
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:5.
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): 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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