Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 1
Every evening an orangutan climbs high, bends branches into a springy platform and piles leaves on top, a bit like you making a den out of cushions, and the next night it builds a brand-new bed.
Who acts: orangutan, you · What happens: climb, bend, pile, make, build · To what, where: branches, springy platform, leaves, top, den, cushions
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 (orangutan, you), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbs | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 orangutan | det |
| 4 | orangutan | orangutan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbs | nsubj |
| 5 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | high | high | ADV | _ | 5 climbs | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bends | punct |
| 8 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbs | conj |
| 9 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bends | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 platform | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 platform | det |
| 12 | springy | springy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 platform | amod |
| 13 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bends | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 piles | cc |
| 15 | piles | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bends | conj |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 piles | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piles | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 making | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bit | det |
| 21 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 orangutan | appos |
| 22 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 24 making | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 making | nsubj |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 bit | acl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 den | det |
| 26 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 making | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 cushions | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 cushions | case |
| 29 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 making | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 builds | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 builds | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 night | det |
| 33 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 night | amod |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 builds | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 builds | nsubj |
| 36 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbs | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 bed | det |
| 38 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 new | amod |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 brand | punct |
| 40 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 bed | amod |
| 41 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 builds | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present | a orangutan | evening | high property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bend | present | a orangutan not said here | branches | a springy platform | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent branch=Material into platform=Product | |||
| 3 | pile | present | a orangutan not said here | leaves | top | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme on top=Destination | |||
| 4 | make | gerund | you | a den | cushions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Product | |||
| 5 | build | present | orangutan | a new bed | night | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bed=Product |
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:1.
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, R7-rel-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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