--- title: Trees are the record breakers of the living world: bristlecone pines… — Trees · tree and pragmatics description: Trees are the record breakers of the living world: bristlecone pines over 4800 years old, a redwood called Hyperion about 116 metres tall, and a single oak that is home to more than 2000 kinds of living things. Who acts: Trees. A sentence of the lesson «Trees» of the biology course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/2/) [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/) / 2 # Trees, sentence 2 Trees are the record breakers of the living world: bristlecone pines over 4800 years old, a redwood called Hyperion about 116 metres tall, and a single oak that is home to more than 2000 kinds of living things. **Who acts:** Trees · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** record breakers, redwood · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Trees), 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:2 # text = Trees are the record breakers of the living world: bristlecone pines over 4800 years old, a redwood called Hyperion about 116 metres tall, and a single oak that is home to more than 2000 kinds of living things. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 record record ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 breakers breaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 bristlecone bristlecone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 pines pine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 over over ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 4800 4800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 redwood redwood NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 Hyperion Hyperion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 116 116 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 33 home home ADV RB _ 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 37 advmod _ _ 36 than than ADP IN _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 a** | present | Trees | the record breakers | | | | of the living world | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | | a redwood *not said here* | | | | tall *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | to 2000 kinds; of living things | tree rules | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/1/) - next →: [Trees, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/)