The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 7

The slow loris is one of very few venomous mammals; when a loris raises its arms while being tickled, it is frightened and getting ready to bite.

Who acts: slow loris, loris · What happens: be, raise, tickle, get, bite · To what, where: one, arms, loris

This is a sentence of the lesson «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 (slow loris, loris), 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 loris	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loris	amod
3	loris	loris	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 frightened	parataxis
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 mammals	case
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 few	advmod
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mammals	amod
9	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mammals	amod
10	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 raises	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 raises	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 loris	det
14	loris	loris	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 raises	nsubj
15	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 frightened	advcl
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arms	nmod:poss
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 raises	obj
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 tickled	mark
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 tickled	aux:pass
20	tickled	tickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 raises	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 frightened	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 frightened	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 frightened	cop
24	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 getting	cc
26	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 frightened	conj
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 getting	xcomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 bite	mark
29	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ready	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the slow loris	one	of few venomous mammals	tree rules
2	raise	present	a loris	loris's arms		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3	tickle	gerund · passive	a loris not said here			vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»
4	is	present · passive		loris	frighten property	tree rules
5	get	gerund			ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	bite	to-infinitive				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:7.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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