--- title: The ginkgo is a living fossil, its family going back about 200 milli… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics description: The ginkgo is a living fossil, its family going back about 200 million years, and it has no close living relatives; its name biloba means two lobes, after the split leaf. Who acts: ginkgo, family, name. 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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 (ginkgo, family, name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.lesson:12 # text = The ginkgo is a living fossil, its family going back about 200 million years, and it has no close living relatives; its name biloba means two lobes, after the split leaf. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ginkgo ginkgo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 14 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 21 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 biloba biloba PROPN ADD _ 26 appos _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 lobes lobe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | the ginkgo | a living fossil | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go back** | gerund | fossil's family *not said here* | | | | year | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | family | no close living relatives | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | family's name | two lobes | | | after the split leaf | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobe=Topic | | 5 | **split** | participle | | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **name** | | family | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.lesson:12`. **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. 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