--- title: The forest also hides strange animals: the okapi with zebra-striped… — The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis… · tree and pragmatics description: The forest also hides strange animals: the okapi with zebra-striped legs is really a giraffe's cousin, and the pangolin, covered in scales, rolls into a ball that even a leopard cannot open. Who acts: forest, okapi, pangolin, leopard. 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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 (forest, okapi, pangolin, leopard), 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:3 # text = The forest also hides strange animals: the okapi with zebra-striped legs is really a giraffe's cousin, and the pangolin, covered in scales, rolls into a ball that even a leopard cannot open. # 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 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 okapi okapi NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 striped stripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 16 really really ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 acl:relcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pangolin pangolin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 30 rolls roll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obj _ _ 35 even even ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ _ 41 . . 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 | **hide** | present | the forest | strange animals | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | the okapi with striped legs | a giraffe's cousin | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cover** | participle | | the pangolin *not said here* | | | | in scales | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in scale=Theme | | 4 | **roll** | present | the pangolin | | | a ball | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination | | 5 | **not** **open** | can | a leopard | a ball | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=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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