Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 9

Paradise tree snakes flatten their bodies and wriggle in the air to glide from tree to tree; Borneo also has gliding frogs, lizards and squirrels, perhaps because its tall trees stand far apart.

Who acts: tree snakes, Borneo, tall trees · What happens: flatten, wriggle, glide, have, stand · To what, where: bodies, air, tree, gliding frogs

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 (tree snakes, Borneo, tall 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	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tree	compound
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snakes	compound
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flatten	nsubj
4	flatten	flatten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bodies	nmod:poss
6	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flatten	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wriggle	cc
8	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flatten	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 air	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wriggle	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 glide	mark
13	glide	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wriggle	advcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 tree	case
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glide	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 tree	case
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glide	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 Borneo	punct
19	Borneo	borneo	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 has	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 has	advmod
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flatten	parataxis
22	gliding	glide	ADJ	_	23 frogs	amod
23	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 has	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lizards	punct
25	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 frogs	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 squirrels	cc
27	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 frogs	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stand	punct
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	34 stand	advmod
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 stand	mark
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 trees	nmod:poss
32	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 trees	amod
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 stand	nsubj
34	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 has	advcl
35	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 apart	advmod
36	apart	apart	ADV	_	34 stand	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flatten	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	flatten	present	tree snakes	snakes's bodies			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
2	wriggle	present	tree snakes not said here		the air		vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	glide	to-infinitive	tree snakes not said here		tree	to tree	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tree=Source to tree=Trajectory
4	have	present	Borneo	gliding frogs and lizards and squirrels			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient
5	stand	present	air's tall trees			apart, perhaps property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:9.

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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