--- title: Think of a car climbing a mountain road on holiday: the trees get sm… — Mountains and highlands · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a car climbing a mountain road on holiday: the trees get smaller, the air gets colder, your ears pop, and at the top there may be snow in summer. Who acts: you, car, trees, air. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains and highlands» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/17-mountains-and-highlands/5/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Mountains and highlands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/17-mountains-and-highlands/) / 5 # Mountains and highlands, sentence 5 Think of a car climbing a mountain road on holiday: the trees get smaller, the air gets colder, your ears pop, and at the top there may be snow in summer. **Who acts:** you, car, trees, air, ears, snow · **What happens:** think, climb, get, pop, be · **To what, where:** mountain road, holiday, top · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains and highlands» of the geography 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 (you, car, trees, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:017-mountains-and-highlands.lesson:5 # text = Think of a car climbing a mountain road on holiday: the trees get smaller, the air gets colder, your ears pop, and at the top there may be snow in summer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 017-mountains-and-highlands.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 ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 climbing climb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 15 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 20 colder cold ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod:poss 23 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound 24 pop pop NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 30 there there PRON EX _ 32 expl _ _ 31 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 33 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a car | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **climb** | gerund | a car *not said here* | a mountain road | | holiday | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location road=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | the trees | | | | | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **get** | present | the air | | | | | cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **pop** | | your ears | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | may | snow | | | the top; there | summer | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location | 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:geography:017-mountains-and-highlands.lesson:5`. **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 ×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: [Mountains and highlands, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/17-mountains-and-highlands/4/) - next →: [Mountains and highlands, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/17-mountains-and-highlands/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/17-mountains-and-highlands/)