Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 2
The forest is full of oddities: a monkey with a nose like a dangling cucumber, a flower as wide as a car tyre that stinks of rotting meat, and snakes, frogs and lizards that glide between the trees.
Who acts: forest, flower, snakes · What happens: be, dangling, stink, rot, glide · To what, where: trees
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 (forest, flower, snakes), 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 forest | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 oddities | case |
| 6 | oddities | oddity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 monkey | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 monkey | det |
| 9 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oddities | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 nose | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nose | det |
| 12 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 monkey | nmod |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 cucumber | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cucumber | det |
| 15 | dangling | dangling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 cucumber | amod |
| 16 | cucumber | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nose | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flower | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 flower | det |
| 19 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oddities | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 wide | advmod |
| 21 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flower | amod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 tyre | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tyre | det |
| 24 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tyre | compound |
| 25 | tyre | tyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wide | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 stinks | nsubj |
| 27 | stinks | stink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 flower | acl:relcl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 meat | case |
| 29 | rotting | rot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 meat | amod |
| 30 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stinks | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 snakes | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 snakes | cc |
| 33 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 oddities | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 frogs | punct |
| 35 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 snakes | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 lizards | cc |
| 37 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 snakes | conj |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 glide | nsubj |
| 39 | glide | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 snakes | acl:relcl |
| 40 | between | between | ADP | _ | 42 trees | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 trees | det |
| 42 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 glide | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the forest | of oddities and a monkey with a nose like a dangling cucumber and a flower and snakes and frogs and lizards; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dangling | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stink | present | a flower | of rotting meat | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of meat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rot | gerund | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | glide | present | snakes and frogs and lizards | the trees | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tree=Trajectory |
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:2.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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