--- title: From a helicopter the canopy looks like a green sea of broccoli, and… — The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and… · tree and pragmatics description: From a helicopter the canopy looks like a green sea of broccoli, and that roof is where most rainforest animals live, because that is where the sunlight, the fruit and the fresh leaves are. Who acts: canopy, roof, that. 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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 (canopy, roof, that), 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:1 # text = From a helicopter the canopy looks like a green sea of broccoli, and that roof is where most rainforest animals live, because that is where the sunlight, the fruit and the fresh leaves are. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 helicopter helicopter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 canopy canopy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 broccoli broccoli NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 15 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 19 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 20 rainforest rainforest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=32:cc 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=32:conj 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 38 . . 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 | **look** | present | the canopy | | | | | like a green sea of broccoli; from a helicopter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from helicopter=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | that roof | | | | | live *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | that | | | | | where *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:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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: [The rainforest from the top: emergent…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/0/) - next →: [The rainforest from the top: emergent…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/2-the-rainforest-from-the-top/)