--- title: Coast redwoods in California are the tallest trees in the world; the… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: Coast redwoods in California are the tallest trees in the world; the tallest, Hyperion, is about 116 metres, its exact place is kept secret to protect it, and the fog they grow in gives water to their high leaves. Who acts: Coast redwoods, tallest, metres, fog. 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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 (Coast redwoods, tallest, metres, fog), 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:5 # text = Coast redwoods in California are the tallest trees in the world; the tallest, Hyperion, is about 116 metres, its exact place is kept secret to protect it, and the fog they grow in gives water to their high leaves. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 redwoods redwood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 nsubj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Hyperion Hyperion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 116 116 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:acl:relcl 28 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 fog fog NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 37 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advmod 39 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 40 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 a** | present | Coast redwoods in California | the tallest trees | | the world | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the tallest | 116 metres | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | present · passive | | redwood's exact place | | | | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **protect** | to-infinitive | | place | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | | 5 | **grow** | present | metres *= metre* | the fog *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fog=Theme | | 6 | **give** | present | the fog | water | metres's high leaves | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent water=Theme to leaf=Recipient | 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:5`. **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): 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. 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