--- title: The canopy is the thick roof of leaves and branches high in a rainfo… — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics description: The canopy is the thick roof of leaves and branches high in a rainforest. Who acts: canopy. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/17/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/) / 17 # Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 17 The canopy is the thick roof of leaves and branches high in a rainforest. **Who acts:** canopy · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** thick roof This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» of the world 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 (canopy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.lesson:17 # text = The canopy is the thick roof of leaves and branches high in a rainforest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 canopy canopy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 rainforest rainforest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | the canopy | the thick roof | | | | of leaves and branches | 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:world:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.lesson:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/16/) - next →: [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/)