--- title: It has more kinds of living things than any other land biome, arrang… — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics description: It has more kinds of living things than any other land biome, arranged in layers: the dark forest floor, the understorey, the thick roof of leaves called the canopy, and a few giant trees poking above it. Who acts: rainforest, thick roof, few giant trees. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rainforest, thick roof, few giant trees), 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:5 # text = It has more kinds of living things than any other land biome, arranged in layers: the dark forest floor, the understorey, the thick roof of leaves called the canopy, and a few giant trees poking above it. # 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 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 biome biome NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 arranged arrange VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 understorey understorey NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 canopy canopy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 40 poking poke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ _ 41 above above ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | rainforest | more kinds of living things | | | | than any other land biome | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | | 2 | **arrange** | past | rainforest *not said here* | | | layers | | | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in layer=Destination | | 3 | **call** | participle | the thick roof of leaves *not said here* | the canopy | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent canopy=Recipient | | 4 | **poke** | gerund | a few giant trees *not said here* | | | rainforest | | | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent above it=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:world:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.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): 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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/4/) - next →: [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/)