--- title: Bristlecone pines grow very slowly in harsh mountain places and can… — Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived · tree and pragmatics description: Bristlecone pines grow very slowly in harsh mountain places and can live for nearly five thousand years; one called Methuselah is over four thousand years old. Who acts: Bristlecone pines, one. 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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 (Bristlecone pines, one), 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:8 # text = Bristlecone pines grow very slowly in harsh mountain places and can live for nearly five thousand years; one called Methuselah is over four thousand years old. # 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 Bristlecone Bristlecone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pines pine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 compound _ _ 16 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nsubj _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 Methuselah Methuselah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 23 over over ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 compound _ _ 25 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **grow** | present | Bristlecone pines | | | harsh mountain places | | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 2 | **live** | can | Bristlecone pines *not said here* | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **call** | participle | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | one | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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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