--- title: Tapirs are big plant-eaters with a short flexible snout like a littl… — The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants,… · tree and pragmatics description: Tapirs are big plant-eaters with a short flexible snout like a little trunk, and they hide in water from jaguars; they are closer relatives of horses and rhinos than of pigs. Who acts: Tapirs, ants. 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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, ants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:9 # text = Tapirs are big plant-eaters with a short flexible snout like a little trunk, and they hide in water from jaguars; they are closer relatives of horses and rhinos than of pigs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 157-the-amazon-forest-floor.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): no change 1 Tapirs tapir NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 flexible flexible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 snout snout NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 jaguars jaguar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 28 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 rhinos rhino NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 36 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Tapirs | big plant eaters and closer relatives | | | | with a short flexible snout like a little trunk | tree rules | | 2 | **hide** | present | ants *= ant* | | | water | | from jaguars | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from jaguar=Beneficiary | | 3 | **is a** | present | ants *= ant* | closer relatives | | | | of horses than pigs and rhinos | tree rules | 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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