The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor, sentence 5
Only about 2 per cent of sunlight reaches the floor of a thick rainforest, so few plants grow there except where a big tree has fallen.
Who acts: 2 per cent, few plants, big tree · What happens: reach, grow, fall · To what, where: floor
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 (2 per cent, few plants, big tree), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 2 | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 2 | advmod |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 cent | nummod |
| 4 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cent | compound |
| 5 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reaches | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sunlight | case |
| 7 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cent | nmod |
| 8 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 floor | det |
| 10 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reaches | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rainforest | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rainforest | det |
| 13 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rainforest | amod |
| 14 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 floor | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grow | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 grow | advmod |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 plants | amod |
| 18 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 grow | nsubj |
| 19 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 reaches | parataxis |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 grow | advmod |
| 21 | except | except | ADP | _ | 27 fallen | mark |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 fallen | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tree | amod |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fallen | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 fallen | aux |
| 27 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 grow | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reaches | 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 | reach | present | 2 per cent of sunlight | the floor of a thick rainforest | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent floor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | few plants | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | present · perfect | a big tree | vn occur-48.3 «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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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