--- title: Far to the north lies the biggest forest on land, the taiga, a dark… — Forests: woodland through the year and the great… · tree and pragmatics description: Far to the north lies the biggest forest on land, the taiga, a dark green belt of spruce, pine, fir and larch across Canada, Scandinavia and Russia, where snow slides off cone-shaped trees and moose wade in the lakes. Who acts: biggest forest, snow, moose. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (biggest forest, snow, moose), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:3 # text = Far to the north lies the biggest forest on land, the taiga, a dark green belt of spruce, pine, fir and larch across Canada, Scandinavia and Russia, where snow slides off cone-shaped trees and moose wade in the lakes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 5 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 taiga taiga NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 spruce spruce NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 larch larch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 27 across across ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Scandinavia Scandinavia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 36 advmod _ _ 35 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 slides slide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 off off ADP IN _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 40 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obj 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 moose moose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 44 wade wade VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | the biggest forest on land | | | | | far *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **slide off** | present | snow | shaped trees | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wade** | present | moose | | | the lakes | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Trajectory | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:3`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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