--- title: Bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of California can live near… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: Bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of California can live nearly 5,000 years; one named Methuselah is over 4,800 years old, already growing when the first Egyptian pyramids were built. Who acts: Bristlecone pines, one. 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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 (Bristlecone pines, one), 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:8 # text = Bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of California can live nearly 5,000 years; one named Methuselah is over 4,800 years old, already growing when the first Egyptian pyramids were built. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bristlecone Bristlecone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pines pine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 White White PROPN NNP _ 6 amod _ _ 6 Mountains Mountain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 5,000 5000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nsubj _ _ 16 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 Methuselah Methuselah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 over over ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 4,800 4,800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 already already ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 amod _ _ 29 Egyptian Egyptian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 pyramids pyramid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **live** | can | Bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of California | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **name** | participle | | Methuselah | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent methuselah=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | one | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | gerund | one *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **build** | past · passive | | the first Egyptian pyramids | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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:8`. **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): 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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