--- title: Only about 2 per cent of sunlight reaches the floor of a thick rainf… — The rainforest from below: understorey and fores… · tree and pragmatics description: Only about 2 per cent of sunlight reaches the floor of a thick rainforest, so few plants grow there except where a big tree has fallen. Who acts: 2 per cent, few plants, big tree. 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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 (2 per cent, few plants, big tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:5 # text = Only about 2 per cent of sunlight reaches the floor of a thick rainforest, so few plants grow there except where a big tree has fallen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 003-the-rainforest-from-below.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 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 2 about about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 4 per per NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 cent cent NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 rainforest rainforest NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 21 except except ADP IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **reach** | present | 2 per cent of sunlight | the floor of a thick rainforest | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent floor=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | present | few plants | | | there | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | present · perfect | a big tree | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/4/) - next →: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/)