--- title: A clam from Iceland named Ming lived about five hundred and seven ye… — Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived · tree and pragmatics description: A clam from Iceland named Ming lived about five hundred and seven years, worked out by counting the growth rings on its shell. Who acts: clam. 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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 (clam), 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:7 # text = A clam from Iceland named Ming lived about five hundred and seven years, worked out by counting the growth rings on its shell. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 clam clam NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Iceland Iceland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 6 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 7 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 9 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 compound _ _ 10 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 by by SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **name** | participle | | a clam from Iceland *not said here* | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **live** | past | a clam from Iceland | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **work out** | participle | a clam from Iceland *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **count** | gerund | a clam from Iceland *not said here* | the growth rings | | clam's shell | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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:7`. **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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