--- title: Welwitschia, a plant of the Namib Desert, has only two leaves its wh… — Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking… · tree and pragmatics description: Welwitschia, a plant of the Namib Desert, has only two leaves its whole life; they keep growing from the base and the wind tears them into strips, and some plants may be over a thousand years old. Who acts: Welwitschia, leaves, wind, plants. 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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 (Welwitschia, leaves, wind, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:10 # text = Welwitschia, a plant of the Namib Desert, has only two leaves its whole life; they keep growing from the base and the wind tears them into strips, and some plants may be over a thousand years old. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Welwitschia welwitschia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Namib Namib PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Desert Desert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 20 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 35 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 37 over over ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 41 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Welwitschia | two leaves | | | | desert's whole life *obl:unmarked* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | present | leaves *= leaf* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | leaves *= leaf* *not said here* | | | | | from the base | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from base=Patient | | 4 | **tear** | present | the wind | leaves *= leaf* | | | | into strips *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into strip=Result | | 5 | **is** | may | some plants | | | | 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:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:10`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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