--- title: The dawn redwood was known only from fossils until living trees were… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: The dawn redwood was known only from fossils until living trees were found in China in the 1940s; seeds were sent round the world and it now grows in many parks. Who acts: redwood. 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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 (redwood), 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:15 # text = The dawn redwood was known only from fossils until living trees were found in China in the 1940s; seeds were sent round the world and it now grows in many parks. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 redwood redwood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 until until SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 1940s 1940 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 23 round round ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 29 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 parks park NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past · passive | | the dawn redwood | | fossils | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past · passive | | living trees | | China | | in the 1940s | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **send** | past · passive | | seeds | | | | round the world | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | present | redwood | | | many parks | now | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=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:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees.lesson:15`. **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. **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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