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title: Borneo is a huge island in Southeast Asia covered in some of the old… — Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the bigge… · tree and pragmatics
description: Borneo is a huge island in Southeast Asia covered in some of the oldest rainforest on Earth, where trees grow taller than a thirty-storey building. Who acts: Borneo, trees. A sentence of the lesson «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» of the biology course o
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# Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 0

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Borneo is a huge island in Southeast Asia covered in some of the oldest rainforest on Earth, where trees grow taller than a thirty-storey building.

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**Who acts:** Borneo, trees · **What happens:** be, cover, grow · **To what, where:** huge island, Southeast Asia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» 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 (Borneo, trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.lesson:0
# text = Borneo is a huge island in Southeast Asia covered in some of the oldest rainforest on Earth, where trees grow taller than a thirty-storey building.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.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	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Southeast	Southeast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	storey	storey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Borneo | a huge island |  | Southeast Asia |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | a huge island *not said here* |  |  |  | in some | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in some=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | present | trees |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.lesson:0`.

**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/).

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