Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 0

Borneo is a huge island in Southeast Asia covered in some of the oldest rainforest on Earth, where trees grow taller than a thirty-storey building.

Who acts: Borneo, trees · What happens: be, cover, grow · To what, where: huge island, Southeast Asia

This is a sentence of the lesson «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» 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 (Borneo, trees), 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	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 island	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 island	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 island	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 island	amod
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 Asia	case
7	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Asia	compound
8	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 island	nmod
9	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 island	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 some	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 covered	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 rainforest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rainforest	det
14	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 rainforest	amod
15	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 some	nmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 Earth	case
17	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 rainforest	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grow	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 grow	advmod
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grow	nsubj
21	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 rainforest	acl:relcl
22	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 grow	xcomp
23	than	than	ADP	_	28 building	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 building	det
25	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 storey	nummod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 thirty	punct
27	storey	storey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 building	compound
28	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taller	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 island	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Borneo	a huge island	Southeast Asia		tree rules
2	cover	participle		a huge island not said here		in some	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in some=Theme
3	grow	present	trees			tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.lesson:0.

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): R8-pos-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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