--- title: Tapirs are shy forest animals with short, bendy snouts, related to h… — The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas,… · tree and pragmatics description: Tapirs are shy forest animals with short, bendy snouts, related to horses and rhinos; they escape danger by running into water, and their babies have stripes and spots like a watermelon that hide them in the forest light. Who acts: Tapirs, rhinos, babies, short bendy snouts. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tapirs, rhinos, babies, short bendy snouts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears.lesson:10 # text = Tapirs are shy forest animals with short, bendy snouts, related to horses and rhinos; they escape danger by running into water, and their babies have stripes and spots like a watermelon that hide them in the forest light. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tapirs tapir NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 bendy bendy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 snouts snout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 rhinos rhino NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 escape escape VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 by by SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 30 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 watermelon watermelon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Tapirs | shy forest animals | | | | with short bendy snouts | tree rules | | 2 | **escape** | present | rhinos *= rhino* | danger | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **run** | gerund | rhinos *= rhino* *not said here* | | | | | into water *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result | | 4 | **have** | present | rhinos's babies | stripes and spots | | | | like a watermelon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Patient | | 5 | **hide** | present | short bendy snouts | stripes *= stripe* | | the forest light | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in light=Location | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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