--- title: Epiphytes such as orchids, ferns and bromeliads live on branches hig… — The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucan… · tree and pragmatics description: Epiphytes such as orchids, ferns and bromeliads live on branches high up, catching rain and fallen bits instead of rooting in the soil. Who acts: Epiphytes. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» of the biology course of Mova's prim --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/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/) / [The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/) / 14 # The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 14 Epiphytes such as orchids, ferns and bromeliads live on branches high up, catching rain and fallen bits instead of rooting in the soil. **Who acts:** Epiphytes · **What happens:** live, catch, fall, root · **To what, where:** branches, rain, soil This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 (Epiphytes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:14 # text = Epiphytes such as orchids, ferns and bromeliads live on branches high up, catching rain and fallen bits instead of rooting in the soil. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 156-the-amazon-canopy.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 1 Epiphytes epiphyte NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 2 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 orchids orchid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 ferns fern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 bromeliads bromeliad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 9 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 up up ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 catching catch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 16 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 22 mark _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 rooting root VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Epiphytes such orchids and ferns and bromeliads | | | branches | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on branch=Location | | 2 | **catch** | gerund | Epiphytes such orchids and ferns and bromeliads *not said here* | rain and fallen bits | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | participle | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **root** | gerund | Epiphytes such orchids and ferns and bromeliads *not said here* | | | the soil | | | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in soil=Location | 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:156-the-amazon-canopy.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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: [The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagl…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/13/) - next →: [The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagl…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/)