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title: The moonrat smells strongly of garlic or onion, and despite its name… — Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the bigge… · tree and pragmatics
description: The moonrat smells strongly of garlic or onion, and despite its name it is not a rat but a cousin of the hedgehog. Who acts: moonrat. A sentence of the lesson «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 11

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The moonrat smells strongly of garlic or onion, and despite its name it is not a rat but a cousin of the hedgehog.

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**Who acts:** moonrat · **What happens:** smell, not be, name · **To what, where:** rat

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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 (moonrat), 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:11
# text = The moonrat smells strongly of garlic or onion, and despite its name it is not a rat but a cousin of the hedgehog.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moonrat	moonrat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	garlic	garlic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	onion	onion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | the moonrat |  |  |  |  | of garlic or onion; strongly *property* | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of garlic=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | moonrat | a rat but a cousin of the hedgehog |  |  |  | despite moonrat's name | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | moonrat |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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: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): no change. **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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