--- title: A tree grows one new ring of wood each year, light spring wood and d… — Forests: woodland through the year and the great… · tree and pragmatics description: A tree grows one new ring of wood each year, light spring wood and darker summer wood; wide rings mean good years and thin rings mean hard dry years. Who acts: tree, wide rings. 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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 (tree, wide rings), 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:5 # text = A tree grows one new ring of wood each year, light spring wood and darker summer wood; wide rings mean good years and thin rings mean hard dry years. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 17 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp 29 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | a tree | one new ring of wood | | | year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | wide rings | | | | year | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | wide rings *not said here* | | | | year | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Forests: woodland through the year and…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/4/) - next →: [Forests: woodland through the year and…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/)