Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 17
The canopy is the thick roof of leaves and branches high in a rainforest.
Who acts: canopy · What happens: be · To what, where: thick roof
This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» of the world 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 (canopy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 canopy | det |
| 2 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roof | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 roof | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roof | det |
| 5 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 roof | amod |
| 6 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 leaves | case |
| 8 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 roof | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 branches | cc |
| 10 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leaves | conj |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leaves | amod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 rainforest | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rainforest | det |
| 14 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 high | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 roof | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the canopy | the thick roof | of leaves and branches | 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:world:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.lesson:17.
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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