Trees, sentence 6

Some Great Basin bristlecone pines in California are over 4800 years old; they grow very slowly in a cold, dry place where few pests survive, and slow-grown wood is dense and tough.

Who acts: Great Basin bristlecone pines, pines, few pests, grown wood · What happens: be, grow, survive · To what, where: cold dry place

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 (Great Basin bristlecone pines, pines, few pests, grown wood), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 pines	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pines	amod
3	Basin	Basin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pines	compound
4	bristlecone	bristlecone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pines	compound
5	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 old	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 California	case
7	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pines	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
9	over	over	ADV	_	10 4800	advmod
10	4800	4800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 old	obl:unmarked
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 grow	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grow	nsubj
15	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 old	parataxis
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 slowly	advmod
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	15 grow	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	23 place	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 place	det
20	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 place	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cold	punct
22	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 place	amod
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grow	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 survive	advmod
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pests	amod
26	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 survive	nsubj
27	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 place	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dense	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 dense	cc
30	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 grown	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 slow	punct
32	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 wood	amod
33	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dense	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 dense	cop
35	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 old	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tough	cc
37	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 dense	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	some Great Basin bristlecone pines in California		year	old property	tree rules
2	grow	present	pines = pine	a cold dry place		slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
3	survive	present	few pests				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	grown wood			dense property	tree rules
6	be		grown wood not said here				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:6.

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, 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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