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title: The female rhinoceros hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with m… — Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the bigge… · tree and pragmatics
description: The female rhinoceros hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with mud and food leftovers and stays inside for weeks, safe from snakes and monkeys, while the male passes food through a slit. Who acts: female rhinoceros hornbill, male. A sentence of the lesson «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, 
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# Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 13

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The female rhinoceros hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with mud and food leftovers and stays inside for weeks, safe from snakes and monkeys, while the male passes food through a slit.

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**Who acts:** female rhinoceros hornbill, male · **What happens:** seal, stay, pass · **To what, where:** hornbill, tree hole, food, slit

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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 (female rhinoceros hornbill, male), 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:13
# text = The female rhinoceros hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with mud and food leftovers and stays inside for weeks, safe from snakes and monkeys, while the male passes food through a slit.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	rhinoceros	rhinoceros	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hornbill	hornbill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seals	seal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
32	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	slit	slit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **seal** | present | the female rhinoceros hornbill | hornbill |  | a tree hole with mud  food leftovers |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 2 | **stay** | present | the female rhinoceros hornbill *not said here* |  |  |  | week | inside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | present | the male | food |  | a slit |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent food=Theme through slit=Destination |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×2. **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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