--- title: The Wollemi pine was found in a hidden canyon in Australia in 1994,… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: The Wollemi pine was found in a hidden canyon in Australia in 1994, with fewer than 100 wild trees, and firefighters were reported to have saved them from the bushfires of 2019 and 2020; garden-centre trees help protect the wild ones, because people can grow one at home instead of hunting for the se --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees, sentence 16 The Wollemi pine was found in a hidden canyon in Australia in 1994, with fewer than 100 wild trees, and firefighters were reported to have saved them from the bushfires of 2019 and 2020; garden-centre trees help protect the wild ones, because people can grow one at home instead of hunting for the secret wild trees. **Who acts:** centre trees, people · **What happens:** find, report, save, help, protect, grow · **To what, where:** Wollemi pine, hidden canyon, firefighters, bushfires, wild ones, one 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 (centre trees, people), 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:16 # text = The Wollemi pine was found in a hidden canyon in Australia in 1994, with fewer than 100 wild trees, and firefighters were reported to have saved them from the bushfires of 2019 and 2020; garden-centre trees help protect the wild ones, because people can grow one at home instead of hunting for the secret wild trees. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Wollemi Wollemi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pine pine 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 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 canyon canyon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 1994 1994 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 16 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 firefighters firefighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 27 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux _ _ 28 saved save VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 xcomp _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bushfires bushfire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 conj _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 43 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 46 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 because because SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 49 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nsubj _ _ 50 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:advcl 52 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 obj _ _ 53 at at ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ _ 55 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 57 mark _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 55 fixed _ _ 57 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 51 advcl _ _ 58 for for ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 60 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 61 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=62:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 62 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obl _ _ 63 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past · passive | | the Wollemi pine | | a hidden canyon in Australia | | in 1994; with 100 wild trees | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **report** | past · passive | | firefighters | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **save** | to-infinitive · perfect | | firefighters *= firefighter* | | the bushfires of 2019 | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from bushfire=Source | | 4 | **help** | present | centre trees | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **protect** | infinitive | centre trees *not said here* | the wild ones | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary | | 6 | **grow** | can | people | one | | home | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | | 7 | **hunt** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | for the secret wild trees | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for tree=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:16`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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