The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor, sentence 9

Rainforest soil is thin, so roots stay near the surface, and many tall trees grow wide buttress roots that prop them up like the walls of a tent.

Who acts: Rainforest soil, roots, many tall trees, wide buttress roots · What happens: be, stay, grow, prop up · To what, where: surface, wide buttress roots, trees

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 (Rainforest soil, roots, many tall trees, wide buttress roots), 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	Rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soil	compound
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thin	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	cop
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 stay	advmod
7	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stay	nsubj
8	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	conj
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 surface	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 surface	det
11	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grow	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grow	cc
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 trees	amod
15	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 trees	amod
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grow	nsubj
17	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	conj
18	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 roots	amod
19	buttress	buttress	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roots	compound
20	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grow	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 prop	nsubj
22	prop	prop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 roots	acl:relcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 prop	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 prop	compound:prt
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 walls	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 walls	det
27	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 prop	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 tent	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tent	det
30	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 walls	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thin	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Rainforest soil			thin property	tree rules
2	stay	present	roots		the surface		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near surface=Location
3	grow	present	many tall trees	wide buttress roots			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location root=Theme
4	prop up	present	wide buttress roots	trees = tree		like the walls of a tent	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=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:9.

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): no change. 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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