--- title: A giant sequoia called General Sherman is so wide that a family car… — Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest · tree and pragmatics description: A giant sequoia called General Sherman is so wide that a family car could park across its trunk, and it has been growing for thousands of years behind bark thick enough to survive forest fires. Who acts: giant sequoia, family car, sequoia. 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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 (giant sequoia, family car, sequoia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:1 # text = A giant sequoia called General Sherman is so wide that a family car could park across its trunk, and it has been growing for thousands of years behind bark thick enough to survive forest fires. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sequoia sequoia NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 General General PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Sherman Sherman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 park park VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 16 across across ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 aux _ _ 24 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 behind behind ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 32 enough enough ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 survive survive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 35 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **call** | participle | | a giant sequoia *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | a giant sequoia | | | | | wide *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **park** | could | a family car | | | car's trunk | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | present · perfect · progressive | sequoia | | | bark | | for thousands of years | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind bark=Location | | 5 | **survive** | to-infinitive | sequoia *not said here* | forest fires | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Circumstance | 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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:1`. **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): 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. 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