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title: Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9… — Trees · tree and pragmatics
description: Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9 years without killing the tree. Who acts: Cork. A sentence of the lesson «Trees» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trees, sentence 9

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Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9 years without killing the tree.

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**Who acts:** Cork · **What happens:** come, peel, kill · **To what, where:** thick bark, cork oak, tree

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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 (Cork), 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:9
# text = Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9 years without killing the tree.
# 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): no change
1	Cork	cork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	cork	cork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	peeled	peel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Cork |  |  | the thick bark of the cork oak |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bark=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **peel** | participle |  | the cork oak *not said here* |  |  | year |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund |  | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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