--- title: Rainforests cover only about 6 percent of the land but hold more tha… — Trees · tree and pragmatics description: Rainforests cover only about 6 percent of the land but hold more than half of all the kinds of land plants and animals, and most of the animals live up in the canopy, where most of the fruit, flowers and leaves are. Who acts: Rainforests, most. A sentence of the lesson «Trees» of the biology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/16/) [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/) / [Trees](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/) / 16 # Trees, sentence 16 Rainforests cover only about 6 percent of the land but hold more than half of all the kinds of land plants and animals, and most of the animals live up in the canopy, where most of the fruit, flowers and leaves are. **Who acts:** Rainforests, most · **What happens:** cover, hold, live up, be · **To what, where:** 6 percent, half, canopy This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees» 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 (Rainforests, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:060-trees.lesson:16 # text = Rainforests cover only about 6 percent of the land but hold more than half of all the kinds of land plants and animals, and most of the animals live up in the canopy, where most of the fruit, flowers and leaves are. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 060-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): R1-cc-next ×4, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Rainforests rainforest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cover cover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 11 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 14 advmod _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 18 det:predet _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 23 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 26 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 canopy canopy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 45 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:obl 37 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 45 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=40:cc 44 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=42:conj 45 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present | Rainforests | 6 percent of the land | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme percent=Destination | | 2 | **hold** | present | Rainforests *not said here* | half of all kinds of land plants and animals | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme | | 3 | **live up** | present | most of the animals | | | the canopy | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canopy=Location | | 4 | **be** | present | most of the fruit and flowers and leaves | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «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:060-trees.lesson:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×4, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Trees, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/15/) - next →: [Carnivorous and strange plants, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/61-carnivorous-and-strange-plants/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/)