The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor, sentence 0

Under the canopy lies the understorey, a dim world of young trees, shrubs, vines and big-leaved plants, and below that the forest floor, where only about 2 per cent of the sunlight arrives.

Who acts: understorey, 2 per cent · What happens: lie, leaved, arrive · To what, where: canopy

This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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 (understorey, 2 per cent), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 canopy	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 canopy	det
3	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lies	obl
4	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 understorey	det
6	understorey	understorey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lies	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 world	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 world	det
9	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 world	amod
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understorey	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 trees	case
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trees	amod
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 world	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shrubs	punct
15	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 trees	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 vines	punct
17	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 trees	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 plants	cc
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leaved	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 big	punct
21	leaved	leaved	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 plants	amod
22	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 trees	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 floor	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 floor	cc
25	below	below	ADP	_	29 floor	case
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 below	fixed
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 floor	det
28	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 floor	compound
29	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understorey	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cent	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 arrives	advmod
32	only	only	ADV	_	34 2	advmod
33	about	about	ADV	_	34 2	advmod
34	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	36 cent	nummod
35	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cent	compound
36	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 arrives	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 sunlight	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sunlight	det
39	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cent	nmod
40	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 floor	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	lie	present	the understorey and the forest floor	the canopy	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under canopy=Location
2	leaved	participle			tree rules
3	arrive	present	2 per cent of the sunlight		vn escape-51.1-1 «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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:0.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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