--- title: Stand at the foot of a coast redwood in California and the people be… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: Stand at the foot of a coast redwood in California and the people beside you look like ants: the tallest tree known, Hyperion, is about 116 metres, taller than the Statue of Liberty with its base. Who acts: you, people, tallest tree. 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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 (you, people, tallest tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees.lesson:0 # text = Stand at the foot of a coast redwood in California and the people beside you look like ants: the tallest tree known, Hyperion, is about 116 metres, taller than the Statue of Liberty with its base. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 redwood redwood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 beside beside ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 23 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Hyperion Hyperion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 116 116 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 conj _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Statue statue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Liberty Liberty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | the foot of a coast redwood in California | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | | 2 | **look** | present | the people you | | | | | like ants | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **know** | participle | | the tallest tree *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | the tallest tree | 116 metres | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | the tallest tree *not said here* | | | | | than the Statue of Liberty with tree's base | 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:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees.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): 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: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? 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