--- title: A tropical rainforest is a tower of homes in layers: a few giant eme… — The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and… · tree and pragmatics description: A tropical rainforest is a tower of homes in layers: a few giant emergent trees poke out at the very top, below them the canopy, a thick roof of leaves 30 to 45 metres up, then the dim understorey and the dark forest floor. Who acts: tropical rainforest, few giant emergent trees. 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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 (tropical rainforest, few giant emergent trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:0 # text = A tropical rainforest is a tower of homes in layers: a few giant emergent trees poke out at the very top, below them the canopy, a thick roof of leaves 30 to 45 metres up, then the dim understorey and the dark forest floor. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 rainforest rainforest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 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 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 emergent emergent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:NN:Degree=Pos 16 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 poke poke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 very very ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 22 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 below below ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 canopy canopy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 45 45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nmod _ _ 37 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 38 up up ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 understorey understorey NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 47 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 49 . . 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 | a tropical rainforest | a tower | | | | of homes in layers | tree rules | | 2 | **poke out** | present | a few giant emergent trees | a thick roof of leaves | | | | at the very top; the dim understorey and the dark forest floor *obl* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at top=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:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/18/) - next →: [The rainforest from the top: emergent…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/)