--- title: Climbing a high mountain is like travelling from summer to the North… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics description: Climbing a high mountain is like travelling from summer to the North Pole in one day: woods at the bottom, then meadows, then rocks, then snow even in July. 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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:0 # text = Climbing a high mountain is like travelling from summer to the North Pole in one day: woods at the bottom, then meadows, then rocks, then snow even in July. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Climbing climb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 like like SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 travelling travel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 obl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 appos _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 27 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 31 even even ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | gerund | | a high mountain | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location mountain=Theme | | 2 | **travel** | gerund | | | the North Pole | | day; summer | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to pole=Destination | 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:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Forests: woodland through the year and…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/15/) - next →: [Mountains: life as you climb higher, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/)