--- title: Mountain ash eucalyptus trees in Tasmania and Victoria are the talle… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: Mountain ash eucalyptus trees in Tasmania and Victoria are the tallest flowering plants, up to about 100 metres (redwoods are taller but carry cones, not flowers), and they need fire to make new seedlings. Who acts: eucalyptus trees, redwoods, cones. 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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 (eucalyptus trees, redwoods, cones), 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:17 # text = Mountain ash eucalyptus trees in Tasmania and Victoria are the tallest flowering plants, up to about 100 metres (redwoods are taller but carry cones, not flowers), and they need fire to make new seedlings. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ash ash NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 eucalyptus eucalyptus NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Tasmania Tasmania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 Victoria Victoria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 12 flowering flower VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 up up ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 21 redwoods redwood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 parataxis _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 cones cone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:parataxis 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 35 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:xcomp 38 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 seedlings seedling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flower** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | eucalyptus trees in Tasmania and Victoria | the tallest flowering plants | | | | 100 metres *obl* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | redwoods | | | | | tall *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | present | redwoods *not said here* | cones and flowers | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cone=Theme | | 5 | **need** | present | cones *= cone* | fire | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fire=Theme | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | cones *= cone* *not said here* | new seedlings | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seedling=Product | 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:17`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/16/) - next →: [Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/)