--- title: Lift a log from the woodpile and you can count its age: each year a… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: Lift a log from the woodpile and you can count its age: each year a tree adds one ring of wood, pale in spring and darker in late summer. Who acts: you, tree. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/) / 1 # Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees, sentence 1 Lift a log from the woodpile and you can count its age: each year a tree adds one ring of wood, pale in spring and darker in late summer. **Who acts:** you, tree · **What happens:** lift, count, add · **To what, where:** log, woodpile, age, one ring This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees» 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 (you, 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:1 # text = Lift a log from the woodpile and you can count its age: each year a tree adds one ring of wood, pale in spring and darker in late summer. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Lift lift VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 log log NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 woodpile woodpile NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | imperative | you *not said here* | a log | | the woodpile | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent log=Theme from woodpile=Destination | | 2 | **count** | can | you | woodpile's age | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | a tree | one ring of wood | | | year | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | 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: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): 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. 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