Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 16

Sumatran elephants are the smallest Asian elephants, and some trained elephants help rangers patrol the forest and lead wild elephants away from farms.

Who acts: Sumatran elephants, trained elephants, rangers · What happens: be, train, help, patrol, lead away · To what, where: smallest Asian elephants, rangers, forest, wild elephants, farms

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 (Sumatran elephants, trained elephants, rangers), 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	Sumatran	sumatran	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 elephants	amod
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 elephants	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 elephants	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 elephants	det
5	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 elephants	amod
6	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 elephants	amod
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 help	cc
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 elephants	det
11	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 elephants	amod
12	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 help	nsubj
13	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 elephants	conj
14	rangers	ranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 help	obj
15	patrol	patrol	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 help	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 patrol	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lead	cc
19	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 patrol	conj
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 elephants	amod
21	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lead	obj
22	away	away	ADV	_	19 lead	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 farms	case
24	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lead	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 elephants	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sumatran elephants	the smallest Asian elephants			tree rules
2	train	participle					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	help	present	some trained elephants	rangers			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ranger=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	patrol	present	rangers not said here	the forest			vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=Location
5	lead away	present	rangers not said here	wild elephants	farms	away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme from farm=Destination

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:16.

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): R8-pos-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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