--- title: Pando in Utah is a group of aspen trees that are all one plant joine… — Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest · tree and pragmatics description: Pando in Utah is a group of aspen trees that are all one plant joined by the same roots, and it may be one of the heaviest living things on Earth. Who acts: Pando, aspen trees, tree, heaviest things. 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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 (Pando, aspen trees, tree, heaviest things), 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:5 # text = Pando in Utah is a group of aspen trees that are all one plant joined by the same roots, and it may be one of the heaviest living things on Earth. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pando Pando PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Utah Utah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 aspen aspen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 all all ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 heaviest heavy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 29 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 acl _ _ 30 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Pando in Utah | a group | | | | of aspen trees | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | aspen trees | one plant | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **join** | participle | | one plant *not said here* | | | | by the same roots | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | may | tree | one | | | | of the heaviest things on Earth | tree rules | | 5 | **live** | gerund | the heaviest things on Earth *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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. 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