The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 12
Sumatran tigers are the smallest tigers, live only on the island of Sumatra and number fewer than about 600, because forests are cut for farms and tigers are hunted; zoos keep a breeding group as insurance.
Who acts: Sumatran tigers, smallest tigers, zoos · What happens: be, live, number, cut, hunt, keep · To what, where: smallest tigers, island, fewer, forests, breeding group
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 (Sumatran tigers, smallest tigers, zoos), 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 | Sumatran | sumatran | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tigers | amod |
| 2 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tigers | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tigers | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tigers | det |
| 5 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 tigers | amod |
| 6 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 live | punct |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tigers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 live | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 live | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Sumatra | case |
| 14 | Sumatra | Sumatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 island | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 number | cc |
| 16 | number | number | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 live | conj |
| 17 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 number | obj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 600 | case |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 600 | advmod |
| 20 | 600 | 600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 fewer | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cut | punct |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 cut | mark |
| 23 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 cut | aux:pass |
| 25 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 hunted | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 farms | case |
| 27 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cut | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tigers | cc |
| 29 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 farms | conj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 hunted | aux:pass |
| 31 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tigers | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 keep | punct |
| 33 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 keep | nsubj |
| 34 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 hunted | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 group | det |
| 36 | breeding | breeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 group | compound |
| 37 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 keep | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 insurance | case |
| 39 | insurance | insurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 keep | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tigers | punct |
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 | Sumatran tigers | the smallest tigers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the smallest tigers not said here | the island of Sumatra | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | ||||
| 3 | number | present | the smallest tigers not said here | fewer | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cut | present · passive | forests | for farms and tigers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for farm=Asset | ||||
| 5 | hunt | present · passive | Sumatran tigers not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | keep | present | zoos | a breeding group | as insurance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme |
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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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): R6-punct-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.
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