Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 1

Island animals often become smaller over many generations, perhaps because there is less room and less food, so Sumatra has the smallest living tiger, the smallest rhino and the smallest Asian elephants.

Who acts: Island animals, less room, Sumatra · What happens: become, be, have · To what, where: many generations, smallest living tiger

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» 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 (Island animals, less room, Sumatra), 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	Island	Island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 animals	compound
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 become	advmod
4	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 become	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 generations	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 generations	amod
8	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 perhaps	punct
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	13 is	advmod
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 is	mark
12	there	there	PRON	_	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 become	advcl
14	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 room	amod
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 food	cc
17	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 food	amod
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 room	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 has	advmod
21	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 become	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tiger	det
24	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 tiger	amod
25	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tiger	compound
26	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rhino	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rhino	det
29	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 rhino	amod
30	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tiger	appos
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 elephants	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 elephants	det
33	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 elephants	amod
34	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 elephants	amod
35	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 rhino	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 become	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	Island animals			over many generations	often, small property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	does	present	less room and less food		there		perhaps property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	Sumatra	the smallest living tiger				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Patient

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:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris.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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