--- title: A banyan drops roots from its branches that become new trunks, and t… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: A banyan drops roots from its branches that become new trunks, and the Great Banyan in Kolkata covers an area like a big park with thousands of root-trunks, though its main trunk was removed in 1925. Who acts: banyan, branches, Great Banyan. 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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 (banyan, branches, Great Banyan), 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:13 # text = A banyan drops roots from its branches that become new trunks, and the Great Banyan in Kolkata covers an area like a big park with thousands of root-trunks, though its main trunk was removed in 1925. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 banyan banyan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Banyan banyan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Kolkata Kolkata PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 though though SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 1925 1925 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | a banyan | roots | | banyan's branches | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent root=Theme from branch=Destination | | 2 | **become** | present | banyan's branches | new trunks | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **cover** | present | the Great Banyan in Kolkata | a area | | | | like a big park with thousands of root trunks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent area=Destination | | 4 | **remove** | past · passive | | trunk's main trunk | | 1925 | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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. 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