--- title: Mountain flowers grow low and are often hairy to keep warm against s… — Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flyi… · tree and pragmatics description: Mountain flowers grow low and are often hairy to keep warm against strong sun, cold winds and short summers, and some grow only a few millimetres a year. Who acts: Mountain flowers, some. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/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/) / [Mountains of the world: snow leopards,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/) / 14 # Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 14 Mountain flowers grow low and are often hairy to keep warm against strong sun, cold winds and short summers, and some grow only a few millimetres a year. **Who acts:** Mountain flowers, some · **What happens:** grow, be, keep · **To what, where:** strong sun, few millimetres This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (Mountain flowers, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:14 # text = Mountain flowers grow low and are often hairy to keep warm against strong sun, cold winds and short summers, and some grow only a few millimetres a year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 hairy hairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 11 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 against against ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 summers summer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 nsubj _ _ 24 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 millimetres millimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Mountain flowers | | | | | low *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Mountain flowers *not said here* | | | | | hairy, often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Mountain flowers *not said here* | | | strong sun and cold winds and short summers | | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent against sun=Location | | 4 | **grow** | present | some | a few millimetres | | | year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location millimetre=Theme | 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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.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 ×2, 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: [Mountains of the world: snow leopards,…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/13/) - next →: [Mountains of the world: snow leopards,…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/)