--- title: Some trees are strange in other ways: a baobab stores water in a fat… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: Some trees are strange in other ways: a baobab stores water in a fat trunk, a banyan grows a forest of trunks, and some trees were known only as fossils until living ones were found. Who acts: trees, baobab, 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 (trees, baobab, 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:4 # text = Some trees are strange in other ways: a baobab stores water in a fat trunk, a banyan grows a forest of trunks, and some trees were known only as fossils until living ones were found. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 baobab baobab NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 banyan banyan NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 until until SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some trees | | | other ways | | strange *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **store** | present | a baobab | water | | a fat trunk | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in trunk=Location | | 3 | **grow** | present | a banyan | a forest of trunks | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forest=Theme | | 4 | **know** | past · passive | | some trees | | | | as fossils | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as fossil=Attribute | | 5 | **find** | past · passive | | living ones | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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:4`. **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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