--- title: The pangolin is covered in hard overlapping scales made of keratin,… — The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis… · tree and pragmatics description: The pangolin is covered in hard overlapping scales made of keratin, like fingernails, has no teeth, and licks up ants and termites with a very long tongue. A sentence of the lesson «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/11/) [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 Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/) / 11 # The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants, sentence 11 The pangolin is covered in hard overlapping scales made of keratin, like fingernails, has no teeth, and licks up ants and termites with a very long tongue. **What happens:** cover, make, have, lick up · **To what, where:** pangolin, hard overlapping scales, teeth, ants This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest.lesson:11 # text = The pangolin is covered in hard overlapping scales made of keratin, like fingernails, has no teeth, and licks up ants and termites with a very long tongue. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 159-the-congo-rainforest.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pangolin pangolin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 overlapping overlap ADJ JJ _ 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 8 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 keratin keratin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 fingernails fingernail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 licks lick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present · passive | | the pangolin | | | | in hard overlapping scales | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in scale=Theme | | 2 | **make** | participle | | hard overlapping scales *not said here* | | | | of keratin and fingernails | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **have** | present | | no teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 4 | **lick up** | present | | ants and termites | | | | with a long tongue | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ant=Experiencer with tongue=Instrument | 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:159-the-congo-rainforest.lesson:11`. **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): R8-pos-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: [The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/10/) - next →: [The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/)