--- title: Tasmania's mountain ash trees are among the tallest flowering trees… — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassow… · tree and pragmatics description: Tasmania's mountain ash trees are among the tallest flowering trees in the world, and the one called the Centurion is about a hundred metres tall, as tall as a thirty-storey building. Who acts: ash trees, one. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/15/) [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/) / [Australia's forests and Tasmania: devi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/) / 15 # Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 15 Tasmania's mountain ash trees are among the tallest flowering trees in the world, and the one called the Centurion is about a hundred metres tall, as tall as a thirty-storey building. **Who acts:** ash trees, one · **What happens:** flower, be, call · **To what, where:** world, Centurion · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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 (ash trees, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:15 # text = Tasmania's mountain ash trees are among the tallest flowering trees in the world, and the one called the Centurion is about a hundred metres tall, as tall as a thirty-storey building. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tasmania Tasmania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 ash ash NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 among among ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 10 flowering flower VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 amod _ _ 11 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Centurion centurion NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 25 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 storey storey NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flower** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Tasmania's ash trees | | | the world | | among the tallest flowering trees | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | participle | the one *not said here* | the Centurion | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent centurion=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | the one | | | | | hundred metres *obl:unmarked*; tall *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | the one *not said here* | | | | | as a storey building | 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:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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