Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 12

Videos of tickled pet lorises raising their arms are not cute: the loris is frightened and getting ready to bite.

Who acts: tickled pet lorises, Videos · What happens: tickle, raise, not be, frighten, get, bite · To what, where: arms, loris

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 (tickled pet lorises, Videos), 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	Videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cute	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 lorises	case
3	tickled	tickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lorises	amod
4	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lorises	compound
5	lorises	loris	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Videos	nmod
6	raising	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 lorises	acl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod:poss
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 raising	obj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cute	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 cute	advmod
11	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 frightened	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 loris	det
14	loris	loris	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 frightened	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 frightened	aux:pass
16	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cute	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 getting	cc
18	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 frightened	conj
19	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 getting	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bite	mark
21	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ready	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cute	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tickle	participle				vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	raise	gerund	tickled pet lorises not said here	Videos's arms		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3	not is	present	Videos of tickled pet lorises		cute property	tree rules
4	frighten	present · passive		the loris		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	get	gerund			ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	bite	to-infinitive				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:12.

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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