--- title: Some animals and plants live astonishingly long: a clam from Iceland… — Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived · tree and pragmatics description: Some animals and plants live astonishingly long: a clam from Iceland lived about five hundred years, older than Shakespeare, and bristlecone pines on a California mountain have been growing for nearly five thousand years. Who acts: animals, clam, bristlecone pines. 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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 (animals, clam, bristlecone pines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:1 # text = Some animals and plants live astonishingly long: a clam from Iceland lived about five hundred years, older than Shakespeare, and bristlecone pines on a California mountain have been growing for nearly five thousand years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 astonishingly astonishingly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 clam clam NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Iceland Iceland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 15 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nummod 16 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Shakespeare Shakespeare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 bristlecone bristlecone NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 pines pine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 aux _ _ 32 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 compound _ _ 36 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **live** | present | some animals and plants | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | past | a clam from Iceland | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present · perfect · progressive | bristlecone pines on a California mountain | | | | year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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