Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 17
Palm oil is in many foods and soaps, so choosing products from better-run plantations can help the forest.
Who acts: Palm oil, choosing · What happens: be, choose, help · To what, where: many foods, products, better run plantations, forest
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 (Palm oil, choosing), 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 | Palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 oil | compound |
| 2 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foods | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 foods | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 foods | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 foods | amod |
| 6 | foods | food | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 help | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 soaps | cc |
| 8 | soaps | soap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 foods | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 products | advmod |
| 11 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 help | csubj |
| 12 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 choosing | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 plantations | case |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 plantations | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
| 16 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plantations | compound |
| 17 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 products | nmod |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 help | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 foods | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Palm oil | many foods and soaps | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | gerund | products | better run plantations | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent product=Theme from plantation=Source | ||||
| 3 | help | can | choosing | the forest | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Beneficiary |
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:17.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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