--- title: The tallest known living tree is a coast redwood called Hyperion, ab… — Trees · tree and pragmatics description: The tallest known living tree is a coast redwood called Hyperion, about 116 metres tall, and the giant sequoia General Sherman is the biggest by volume; much taller is hard for any tree, because lifting water up to the top leaves gets too hard. Who acts: tallest known living tree, giant sequoia, tal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/7/) [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/) / 7 # Trees, sentence 7 The tallest known living tree is a coast redwood called Hyperion, about 116 metres tall, and the giant sequoia General Sherman is the biggest by volume; much taller is hard for any tree, because lifting water up to the top leaves gets too hard. **Who acts:** tallest known living tree, giant sequoia, taller, lifting · **What happens:** know, be, call, lift up, get · **To what, where:** coast redwood, water · **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 (tallest known living tree, giant sequoia, taller, lifting), 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:7 # text = The tallest known living tree is a coast redwood called Hyperion, about 116 metres tall, and the giant sequoia General Sherman is the biggest by volume; much taller is hard for any tree, because lifting water up to the top leaves gets too hard. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 3 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 4 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 5 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 redwood redwood NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 Hyperion Hyperion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 116 116 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:appos 16 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 sequoia sequoia NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 General General PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Sherman Sherman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 conj _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 volume volume NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advmod 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 36 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 38 because because SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 39 lifting lift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 csubj _ _ 40 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 46 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 47 too too ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **know** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | the tallest known living tree | a coast redwood | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | participle | | a coast redwood *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the giant sequoia | | | | | by volume; big *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | taller | | | | | for any tree; hard *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **lift up** | gerund | | water | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 7 | **get** | present | lifting | | | | | hard *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:7`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/6/) - next →: [Trees, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/)