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title: Borneo's forest trees are hung with giant ferns and other plants tha… — Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the bigge… · tree and pragmatics
description: Borneo's forest trees are hung with giant ferns and other plants that grow on branches, and some of its trees are over ninety metres tall. Who acts: other plants, some. A sentence of the lesson «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» of the biology course of Mo
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# Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 15

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Borneo's forest trees are hung with giant ferns and other plants that grow on branches, and some of its trees are over ninety metres tall.

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**Who acts:** other plants, some · **What happens:** hang, grow, be · **To what, where:** forest trees, branches, ninety metres

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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 (other plants, some), 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:15
# text = Borneo's forest trees are hung with giant ferns and other plants that grow on branches, and some of its trees are over ninety metres tall.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ferns	fern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
27	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hang** | present · passive |  | Borneo's forest trees |  |  |  | with giant ferns and other plants | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fern=Instrument |
| 2 | **grow** | present | other plants |  |  | branches |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on branch=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | some |  |  | ninety metres |  |  | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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): R7-rel-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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