--- title: Up there the summer is short, the wind is fierce and the sunshine is… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics description: Up there the summer is short, the wind is fierce and the sunshine is strong, so trees give up at the treeline and only tough, low, hairy or cushion-shaped plants carry on. Who acts: summer, wind, sunshine, trees. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» of the biology course of --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 2 Up there the summer is short, the wind is fierce and the sunshine is strong, so trees give up at the treeline and only tough, low, hairy or cushion-shaped plants carry on. **Who acts:** summer, wind, sunshine, trees, tough low plants · **What happens:** be, give up, carry on · **To what, where:** treeline 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 (summer, wind, sunshine, trees), 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:2 # text = Up there the summer is short, the wind is fierce and the sunshine is strong, so trees give up at the treeline and only tough, low, hairy or cushion-shaped plants carry on. # 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 Up up ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 treeline treeline NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 hairy hairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 cushion cushion NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 36 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 38 on on ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the summer | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the wind | | | | | fierce *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the sunshine | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **give up** | present | trees | | | the treeline | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **carry on** | present | tough low plants | | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: 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:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:2`. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/1/) - next →: [Mountains: life as you climb higher, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/)