--- title: A tree adds one ring of wood each year, wide rings mean good wet yea… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: A tree adds one ring of wood each year, wide rings mean good wet years and thin rings dry or cold ones, and scientists use rings in old timbers to date buildings and learn about past weather. Who acts: tree, wide rings, thin rings, scientists. 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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 (tree, wide rings, thin rings, scientists), 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:9 # text = A tree adds one ring of wood each year, wide rings mean good wet years and thin rings dry or cold ones, and scientists use rings in old timbers to date buildings and learn about past weather. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 20 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 timbers timber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 33 date date VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 34 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:conj 37 about about ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | a tree | one ring of wood | | | year | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | wide rings | | | | year | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **one** | | thin rings | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **use** | present | scientists | rings | | old timbers | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | | 5 | **date** | to-infinitive | scientists *not said here* | buildings | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=Co-Agent | | 6 | **learn** | infinitive | scientists *not said here* | | | | | about past weather | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about weather=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:9`. **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, 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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