--- title: Cushion plants grow in low tight domes that stay calmer and warmer i… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics description: Cushion plants grow in low tight domes that stay calmer and warmer inside, sometimes several degrees warmer than the air; some llareta cushions in the Andes may be over 1000 years old. Who acts: Cushion plants, low tight domes, llareta cushions. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 14 Cushion plants grow in low tight domes that stay calmer and warmer inside, sometimes several degrees warmer than the air; some llareta cushions in the Andes may be over 1000 years old. **Who acts:** Cushion plants, low tight domes, llareta cushions · **What happens:** grow, stay, be · **To what, where:** low tight domes 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 (Cushion plants, low tight domes, llareta cushions), 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:14 # text = Cushion plants grow in low tight domes that stay calmer and warmer inside, sometimes several degrees warmer than the air; some llareta cushions in the Andes may be over 1000 years old. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cushion cushion NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 domes dome NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 calmer calm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 conj _ _ 13 inside inside ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 18 advmod _ _ 16 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj 18 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 conj _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 24 llareta llareta NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 cushions cushion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Andes Andes PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 31 over over ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 1000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 35 . . 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 | Cushion plants | | | low tight domes | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dome=Location | | 2 | **stay** | present | low tight domes | | | | | calm, inside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | may | some llareta cushions in the Andes | | | | year | old *property* | 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:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/13/) - next →: [Mountains: life as you climb higher, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/)