Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 15

Borneo's forest trees are hung with giant ferns and other plants that grow on branches, and some of its trees are over ninety metres tall.

Who acts: other plants, some · What happens: hang, grow, be · To what, where: forest trees, branches, ninety metres

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 (other plants, some), 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	4 trees	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Borneo	case
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hung	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hung	aux:pass
6	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 ferns	case
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ferns	amod
9	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hung	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 plants	cc
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plants	amod
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ferns	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 grow	nsubj
14	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 plants	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 branches	case
16	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grow	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 metres	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 metres	cc
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 metres	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 trees	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 trees	nmod:poss
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 some	nmod
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 metres	cop
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 metres	case
25	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 metres	nummod
26	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hung	conj
27	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 metres	amod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hung	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	present · passive		Borneo's forest trees		with giant ferns and other plants	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fern=Instrument
2	grow	present	other plants		branches		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on branch=Location
3	is	present	some		ninety metres		tree rules

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:15.

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): 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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