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title: Rainforests cover only about 6 per cent of Earth's land, but scienti… — The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rainforests cover only about 6 per cent of Earth's land, but scientists think more than half of all land plant and animal species live in them. Who acts: Rainforests, scientists, half. A sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 6

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Rainforests cover only about 6 per cent of Earth's land, but scientists think more than half of all land plant and animal species live in them.

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**Who acts:** Rainforests, scientists, half · **What happens:** cover, think, live · **To what, where:** 6 per cent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rainforests, scientists, half), 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:6
# text = Rainforests cover only about 6 per cent of Earth's land, but scientists think more than half of all land plant and animal species live in them.
# 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 ×2
1	Rainforests	rainforest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
5	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
25	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present | Rainforests | 6 per cent of Earth's land |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cent=Destination |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | present | half of all plant species and animal |  |  |  |  | in animals *= animal* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=Location |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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. **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/).

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