The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 11

The binturong, or bearcat, is an Asian tree animal whose urine smells like buttered popcorn because it holds the same chemical, and it has a gripping tail.

Who acts: binturong, urine · What happens: be, smell, butter, hold, have, grip · To what, where: Asian tree animal, same chemical, gripping tail

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» 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 (binturong, urine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 binturong	det
2	binturong	binturong	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smells	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bearcat	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 bearcat	cc
5	bearcat	bearcat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 binturong	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 animal	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 animal	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 animal	det
9	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animal	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animal	compound
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 binturong	appos
12	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 urine	nmod:poss
13	urine	urine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smells	nsubj
14	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 popcorn	case
16	buttered	butter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 popcorn	amod
17	popcorn	popcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smells	obl
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 holds	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 holds	nsubj
20	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 smells	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chemical	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chemical	amod
23	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 holds	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 has	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 smells	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tail	det
29	gripping	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Part	30 tail	amod
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 smells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a Asian tree animal		tree rules
2	smell	present	the binturong or bearcat		like buttered popcorn	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	butter	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	hold	present	urine	the same chemical		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Theme
5	have	present	urine	a gripping tail		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
6	grip	gerund				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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, 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:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears.lesson:11.

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 ×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.

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