--- title: Some Great Basin bristlecone pines in California are over 4800 years… — Trees · tree and pragmatics description: Some Great Basin bristlecone pines in California are over 4800 years old; they grow very slowly in a cold, dry place where few pests survive, and slow-grown wood is dense and tough. Who acts: Great Basin bristlecone pines, pines, few pests, grown wood. A sentence of the lesson «Trees» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/6/) [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/) / 6 # Trees, sentence 6 Some Great Basin bristlecone pines in California are over 4800 years old; they grow very slowly in a cold, dry place where few pests survive, and slow-grown wood is dense and tough. **Who acts:** Great Basin bristlecone pines, pines, few pests, grown wood · **What happens:** be, grow, survive · **To what, where:** cold dry place 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 (Great Basin bristlecone pines, pines, few pests, grown wood), 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:6 # text = Some Great Basin bristlecone pines in California are over 4800 years old; they grow very slowly in a cold, dry place where few pests survive, and slow-grown wood is dense and tough. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 2 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 Basin Basin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 bristlecone bristlecone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 pines pine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 over over ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 4800 4800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 25 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 pests pest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 dense dense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some Great Basin bristlecone pines in California | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | pines *= pine* | | | a cold dry place | | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 3 | **survive** | present | few pests | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | grown wood | | | | | dense *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | grown wood *not said here* | | | | | | 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:6`. **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, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/5/) - next →: [Trees, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/)