Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 10
Tarsiers are the only primates that eat only animals, catching insects, spiders and small lizards.
Who acts: Tarsiers, only primates · What happens: be, eat, catch · To what, where: only primates, animals, insects
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 (Tarsiers, only primates), 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 | Tarsiers | tarsier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 primates | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 primates | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 primates | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 primates | amod |
| 5 | primates | primate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 primates | acl:relcl |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 animals | advmod |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 catching | punct |
| 11 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 eat | advcl |
| 12 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 catching | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spiders | punct |
| 14 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 insects | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lizards | cc |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lizards | amod |
| 17 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 insects | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 primates | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tarsiers | the only primates | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | the only primates | animals | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | ||||
| 3 | catch | gerund | the only primates not said here | insects and spiders and small lizards | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme |
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:10.
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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