--- title: When researchers sprayed a harmless mist into single canopy trees, b… — The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucan… · tree and pragmatics description: When researchers sprayed a harmless mist into single canopy trees, beetles of hundreds of kinds fell out, many never named. Who acts: researchers, beetles. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» of the biology course of Mova's prima --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/) / 15 # The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 15 When researchers sprayed a harmless mist into single canopy trees, beetles of hundreds of kinds fell out, many never named. **Who acts:** researchers, beetles · **What happens:** spray, fall out, not name · **To what, where:** harmless mist, single canopy trees, many This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 (researchers, beetles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:15 # text = When researchers sprayed a harmless mist into single canopy trees, beetles of hundreds of kinds fell out, many never named. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 156-the-amazon-canopy.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 ×3 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 researchers researcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sprayed spray VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 mist mist NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 canopy canopy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spray** | past | researchers | a harmless mist | | single canopy trees | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mist=Theme into tree=Destination | | 2 | **fall out** | past | beetles of hundreds of kinds | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **name** | participle · passive | | many | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:15`. **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 ×3. **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: [The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagl…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/14/) - next →: [The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagl…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/)