Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 11
The moonrat smells strongly of garlic or onion, and despite its name it is not a rat but a cousin of the hedgehog.
Who acts: moonrat · What happens: smell, not be, name · To what, where: rat
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 (moonrat), 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 moonrat | det |
| 2 | moonrat | moonrat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smells | nsubj |
| 3 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 3 smells | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 garlic | case |
| 6 | garlic | garlic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smells | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 onion | cc |
| 8 | onion | onion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 garlic | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rat | cc |
| 11 | despite | despite | ADP | _ | 13 name | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rat | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rat | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 rat | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 rat | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rat | det |
| 18 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smells | conj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 cousin | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cousin | det |
| 21 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rat | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hedgehog | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hedgehog | det |
| 24 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cousin | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | present | the moonrat | of garlic or onion; strongly property | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of garlic=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | moonrat | a rat but a cousin of the hedgehog | despite moonrat's name | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | moonrat | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.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): 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.
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