--- title: The taiga, or boreal forest, is mostly spruce, pine, fir and larch,… — Forests: woodland through the year and the great… · tree and pragmatics description: The taiga, or boreal forest, is mostly spruce, pine, fir and larch, and it is the biggest land habitat on Earth, nearly a third of all the world's forest. Who acts: taiga. 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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 (taiga), 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:9 # text = The taiga, or boreal forest, is mostly spruce, pine, fir and larch, and it is the biggest land habitat on Earth, nearly a third of all the world's forest. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 taiga taiga NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 boreal boreal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod 6 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 spruce spruce NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 larch larch NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 23 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 habitat habitat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the taiga or boreal forest | spruce and pine and fir and larch and the biggest land habitat and a third of the world's forest | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | taiga | the biggest land habitat | | Earth | | | 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](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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/8/) - next →: [Forests: woodland through the year and…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/)