--- title: People once cut tunnels through giant sequoias for cars as a tourist… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: People once cut tunnels through giant sequoias for cars as a tourist trick, and one tunnel tree fell in a storm in 2017. Who acts: People, one tunnel tree. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees, sentence 7 People once cut tunnels through giant sequoias for cars as a tourist trick, and one tunnel tree fell in a storm in 2017. **Who acts:** People, one tunnel tree · **What happens:** cut, fall · **To what, where:** tunnels, giant sequoias, storm 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 (People, one tunnel tree), 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:7 # text = People once cut tunnels through giant sequoias for cars as a tourist trick, and one tunnel tree fell in a storm in 2017. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:root 2 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 3 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sequoias sequoia NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 tourist tourist NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 tunnel tunnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 2017 2017 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **cut** | past | People | tunnels | | giant sequoias | | for cars; as a tourist trick; once *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent tunnel=Product for car=Asset | | 2 | **fall** | past | one tunnel tree | | | a storm | | in 2017 | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in storm=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:7`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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