--- title: Edelweiss is covered in thick woolly white hairs that protect it fro… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics description: Edelweiss is covered in thick woolly white hairs that protect it from strong sunlight, cold and drying wind, and it is protected, so it must not be picked in many places. Who acts: thick woolly white hairs. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» of the biology course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Mountains: life as you climb higher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/) / 12 # Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 12 Edelweiss is covered in thick woolly white hairs that protect it from strong sunlight, cold and drying wind, and it is protected, so it must not be picked in many places. **Who acts:** thick woolly white hairs · **What happens:** cover, protect, dry, not pick · **To what, where:** Edelweiss, condor, many places This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» of the biology 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 (thick woolly white hairs), 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:12 # text = Edelweiss is covered in thick woolly white hairs that protect it from strong sunlight, cold and drying wind, and it is protected, so it must not be picked in many places. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Edelweiss edelweiss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 protect protect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 drying dry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 19 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 protected protect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present · passive | | Edelweiss | | | | in thick woolly white hairs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in hair=Theme | | 2 | **protect** | present | thick woolly white hairs | condor | | | | from strong sunlight and wind | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from sunlight=Theme | | 3 | **dry** | gerund | thick woolly white hairs *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **protect** | present · passive | | condor | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | | 5 | **not** **pick** | must · passive | | condor | | many places | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:12`. **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, 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: [Mountains: life as you climb higher, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/11/) - next →: [Mountains: life as you climb higher, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/)