Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 4
The Sumatran tiger is the smallest living tiger and lives only on Sumatra; fewer than about six hundred are thought to be left in the wild.
Who acts: Sumatran tiger · What happens: be, live, think, leave · To what, where: smallest living tiger, Sumatra, fewer, wild
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 tiger), 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 tiger | det |
| 2 | Sumatran | sumatran | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tiger | amod |
| 3 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tiger | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tiger | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tiger | det |
| 6 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 tiger | amod |
| 7 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tiger | amod |
| 8 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lives | cc |
| 10 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tiger | conj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 Sumatra | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Sumatra | case |
| 13 | Sumatra | Sumatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lives | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fewer | punct |
| 15 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 hundred | case |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 hundred | advmod |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hundred | compound |
| 19 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 fewer | nmod |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thought | aux:pass |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tiger | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 left | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 left | aux:pass |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 thought | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 wild | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wild | det |
| 27 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tiger | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Sumatran tiger | the smallest living tiger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the Sumatran tiger not said here | Sumatra | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sumatra=Location | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present · passive | fewer than six hundred | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive · passive | in the wild result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: in wild=Result |
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:4.
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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