Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees, sentence 8

Bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of California can live nearly 5,000 years; one named Methuselah is over 4,800 years old, already growing when the first Egyptian pyramids were built.

Who acts: Bristlecone pines, one · What happens: live, name, be, grow, build · To what, where: Methuselah, first Egyptian pyramids

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 (Bristlecone pines, one), 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	Bristlecone	Bristlecone	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pines	compound
2	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 Mountains	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mountains	det
5	White	White	PROPN	_	6 Mountains	amod
6	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 pines	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 California	case
8	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mountains	nmod
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 live	aux
10	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	12 5,000	advmod
12	5,000	5000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	obl:unmarked
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 old	nsubj
16	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 one	acl
17	Methuselah	Methuselah	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 named	obj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 old	cop
19	over	over	ADV	_	20 4,800	advmod
20	4,800	4,800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 old	obl:unmarked
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 live	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 growing	punct
24	already	already	ADV	_	25 growing	advmod
25	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 old	advcl
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 built	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pyramids	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 pyramids	amod
29	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pyramids	amod
30	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 built	nsubj:pass
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 built	aux:pass
32	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 growing	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	can	Bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of California		year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	name	participle		Methuselah			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent methuselah=Theme
3	is	present	one		year	old property	tree rules
4	grow	gerund	one not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	build	past · passive		the first Egyptian pyramids			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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:8.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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