Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 9

Tarsiers are tiny primates whose each eye is about as big as their brain; they cannot move their eyes, so they turn their heads almost all the way round.

Who acts: Tarsiers, eye · What happens: be, not move, turn · To what, where: tiny primates, eyes, heads

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 (Tarsiers, eye), 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	Tarsiers	tarsier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 primates	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 primates	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 primates	amod
4	primates	primate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 eye	nmod:poss
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 eye	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 big	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 big	cop
9	about	about	ADV	_	11 big	advmod
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 big	advmod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 primates	acl:relcl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 brain	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brain	nmod:poss
14	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 big	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 move	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 move	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 move	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 move	advmod
19	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 primates	parataxis
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 move	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turn	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 turn	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 turn	nsubj
25	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 move	advcl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heads	nmod:poss
27	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turn	obj
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	31 way	advmod
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 way	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turn	obl:unmarked
32	round	round	ADV	_	25 turn	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 primates	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Tarsiers	tiny primates		tree rules
2	is	present	each eye		as Tarsiers's brain; about, big property	tree rules
3	not move	can	Tarsiers = tarsier	Tarsiers's eyes		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	turn	present	Tarsiers = tarsier	Tarsiers's heads	all way obl:unmarked; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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:9.

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. 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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