Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 11

The slow loris is one of the only venomous primates: it licks a gland on its arm and mixes the venom with its spit before it bites.

Who acts: slow loris, loris · What happens: be, lick, mix, bite · To what, where: one, gland, venom

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 (slow loris, loris), 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	3 loris	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loris	amod
3	loris	loris	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 primates	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 primates	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 primates	amod
9	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 primates	amod
10	primates	primate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 licks	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 licks	nsubj
13	licks	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 gland	det
15	gland	gland	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 licks	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 arm	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 arm	nmod:poss
18	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 licks	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mixes	cc
20	mixes	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 licks	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 venom	det
22	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mixes	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 spit	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 spit	nmod:poss
25	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mixes	obl
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 bites	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bites	nsubj
28	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 mixes	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the slow loris	one	of the only venomous primates	tree rules
2	lick	present	loris	a gland	on loris's arm	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gland=Experiencer on arm=Theme
3	mix	present	loris not said here	the venom	with loris's spit	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent venom=Patient with spit=Co-Patient
4	bite	present	loris			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: 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:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris.lesson:11.

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. 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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