Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 15
In 2017 scientists named the Tapanuli orangutan as a new species, the first new great ape named in nearly a hundred years, and fewer than eight hundred are thought to exist.
Who acts: scientists · What happens: name, think, exist · To what, where: Tapanuli orangutan, 2017, first new great ape
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 (scientists), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2017 | case |
| 2 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 named | obl |
| 3 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 named | nsubj |
| 4 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 orangutan | det |
| 6 | Tapanuli | Tapanuli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 orangutan | compound |
| 7 | orangutan | orangutan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 named | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 species | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 species | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 species | amod |
| 11 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 named | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 scientists | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ape | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 ape | amod |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ape | amod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ape | amod |
| 17 | ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 species | appos |
| 18 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ape | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 20 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 22 hundred | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hundred | det |
| 22 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 named | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hundred | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hundred | cc |
| 26 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 eight | advmod |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 fewer | fixed |
| 28 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 hundred | compound |
| 29 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 ape | conj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 thought | aux:pass |
| 31 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 named | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 exist | mark |
| 33 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 thought | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past | scientists | the Tapanuli orangutan | 2017 | as a new species | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent orangutan=Theme as species=Attribute | ||
| 2 | name | participle | the first new great ape not said here | year | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present · passive | scientists not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | exist | to-infinitive | scientists not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:15.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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