--- title: Rainforest soil is thin, so roots stay near the surface, and many ta… — The rainforest from below: understorey and fores… · tree and pragmatics description: Rainforest soil is thin, so roots stay near the surface, and many tall trees grow wide buttress roots that prop them up like the walls of a tent. Who acts: Rainforest soil, roots, many tall trees, wide buttress roots. A sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/9/) [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/) / [The rainforest from below: understorey…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/) / 9 # The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor, sentence 9 Rainforest soil is thin, so roots stay near the surface, and many tall trees grow wide buttress roots that prop them up like the walls of a tent. **Who acts:** Rainforest soil, roots, many tall trees, wide buttress roots · **What happens:** be, stay, grow, prop up · **To what, where:** surface, wide buttress roots, trees This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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 (Rainforest soil, roots, many tall trees, wide buttress roots), 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:9 # text = Rainforest soil is thin, so roots stay near the surface, and many tall trees grow wide buttress roots that prop them up like the walls of a tent. # 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): no change 1 Rainforest rainforest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 near near ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 buttress buttress NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 prop prop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 tent tent NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Rainforest soil | | | | | thin *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | present | roots | | | the surface | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near surface=Location | | 3 | **grow** | present | many tall trees | wide buttress roots | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location root=Theme | | 4 | **prop up** | present | wide buttress roots | trees *= tree* | | | | like the walls of a tent | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=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: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): no change. **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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/8/) - next →: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/)