Trees, sentence 2

Trees are the record breakers of the living world: bristlecone pines over 4800 years old, a redwood called Hyperion about 116 metres tall, and a single oak that is home to more than 2000 kinds of living things.

Who acts: Trees · What happens: be, call · To what, where: record breakers, redwood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «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 (Trees), 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	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 breakers	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 breakers	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 breakers	det
4	record	record	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 breakers	amod
5	breakers	breaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
8	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 world	compound
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breakers	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 pines	punct
11	bristlecone	bristlecone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pines	compound
12	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 breakers	appos
13	over	over	ADV	_	14 4800	advmod
14	4800	4800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 old	obl
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pines	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 redwood	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 redwood	det
19	redwood	redwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pines	conj
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 redwood	acl
21	Hyperion	Hyperion	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 116	advmod
23	116	116	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 metres	nummod
24	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tall	obl:unmarked
25	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 called	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 oak	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 oak	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 oak	det
29	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 oak	amod
30	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pines	conj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 home	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 kinds	cop
33	home	home	ADV	_	30 oak	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	38 kinds	case
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	37 2000	advmod
36	than	than	ADP	_	35 more	fixed
37	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 kinds	nummod
38	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 home	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 things	case
40	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 things	amod
41	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 kinds	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 breakers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Trees	the record breakers	of the living world	tree rules
2	call	participle		a redwood not said here	tall property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			to 2000 kinds; of living things	tree rules

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:060-trees.lesson:2.

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 ×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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