--- title: Baobabs store thousands of litres of water in their huge spongy trun… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: Baobabs store thousands of litres of water in their huge spongy trunks and drop their leaves in the dry season; some hollow baobabs have been used as a shop, a prison and even a pub. Who acts: Baobabs. 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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 (Baobabs), 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:11 # text = Baobabs store thousands of litres of water in their huge spongy trunks and drop their leaves in the dry season; some hollow baobabs have been used as a shop, a prison and even a pub. # 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): no change 1 Baobabs baobab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 spongy spongy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 23 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 baobabs baobab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 even even ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 pub pub NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **store** | present | Baobabs | thousands of litres of water | | litres's huge spongy trunks | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme in trunk=Location | | 2 | **drop** | present | Baobabs *not said here* | litres's leaves | | | season | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | | 3 | **use** | present · perfect · passive | | some hollow baobabs | | | | as a shop and a prison and a pub | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as shop=Attribute | 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:11`. **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): no change. **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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