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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 (Amazon giant water lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.lesson:14 # text = The Amazon giant water lily has leaves up to about three metres across, held up by stiff ribs underneath, strong enough to hold a small child spread on a board. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 3 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 13 across across ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 22 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 23 enough enough ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 acl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **have** | present | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **leaf** | | the Amazon giant water lily | | | | | across *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hold up** | participle | the Amazon giant water lily *not said here* | | | | | by stiff ribs | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **hold** | to-infinitive | the Amazon giant water lily *not said here* | a small child | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | | 5 | **spread** | participle | | a small child *not said here* | | a board | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on board=Location | 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:251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.lesson:14`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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