--- title: Sumatran tigers are the smallest tigers, live only on the island of… — The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas,… · tree and pragmatics description: Sumatran tigers are the smallest tigers, live only on the island of Sumatra and number fewer than about 600, because forests are cut for farms and tigers are hunted; zoos keep a breeding group as insurance. Who acts: Sumatran tigers, smallest tigers, zoos. 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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 (Sumatran tigers, smallest tigers, zoos), 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:12 # text = Sumatran tigers are the smallest tigers, live only on the island of Sumatra and number fewer than about 600, because forests are cut for farms and tigers are hunted; zoos keep a breeding group as insurance. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Sumatran sumatran ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Sumatra Sumatra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 number number VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 obj _ _ 18 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 600 600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 hunted hunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 breeding breeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 insurance insurance NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31: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 | Sumatran tigers | the smallest tigers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | the smallest tigers *not said here* | | | the island of Sumatra | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | | 3 | **number** | present | the smallest tigers *not said here* | fewer | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme | | 4 | **cut** | present · passive | | forests | | | | for farms and tigers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for farm=Asset | | 5 | **hunt** | present · passive | Sumatran tigers *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V» | | 6 | **keep** | present | zoos | a breeding group | | | | as insurance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=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](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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