--- title: The treeline is where trees stop on a mountain, because above it the… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics description: The treeline is where trees stop on a mountain, because above it the summer is too short and cool and the wind too strong for trees to grow wood; it is about 4000 metres near the equator but only about 600 metres in Scotland. Who acts: treeline, summer, wind. 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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 (treeline, summer, wind), 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:4 # text = The treeline is where trees stop on a mountain, because above it the summer is too short and cool and the wind too strong for trees to grow wood; it is about 4000 metres near the equator but only about 600 metres in Scotland. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 treeline treeline NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 6 advmod _ _ 5 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 12 above above ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 too too ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 20 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 30 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 about about ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 4000 4000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 37 near near ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=36:cc 41 only only ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 about about ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 600 600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | the treeline | | | a mountain | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | the summer | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | the summer *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | the wind | | | | | for trees | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** | to-infinitive | the wind *not said here* | wood | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | wind | 4000 metres but 600 metres in Scotland | | the equator | | | 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. 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