--- title: Male proboscis monkeys of Borneo have a long floppy nose that makes… — Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops · tree and pragmatics description: Male proboscis monkeys of Borneo have a long floppy nose that makes their calls louder; they swim well with partly webbed feet and jump into rivers from trees. Who acts: Male proboscis monkeys, long floppy nose, monkeys. 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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 (Male proboscis monkeys, long floppy nose, monkeys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:015-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops.lesson:12 # text = Male proboscis monkeys of Borneo have a long floppy nose that makes their calls louder; they swim well with partly webbed feet and jump into rivers from trees. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 015-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 proboscis proboscis NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Borneo Borneo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 floppy floppy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 louder loud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 xcomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 partly partly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 webbed web VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 jump jump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Male proboscis monkeys of Borneo | a long floppy nose | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | a long floppy nose | monkeys's calls | | | | loud *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset call=Product | | 3 | **swim** | present | monkeys *= monkey* | | | | | with webbed feet; well *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with foot=Theme | | 4 | **web** | participle | | | | | | partly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **jump** | present | monkeys *= monkey* *not said here* | | | | | into rivers *result*; from trees | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into river=Result | | 6 | **call** | | monkeys *= monkey* | | | | | | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:015-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops.lesson:12`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/11/) - next →: [Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/)