--- title: The forest is full of oddities: a monkey with a nose like a dangling… — Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the bigge… · tree and pragmatics description: The forest is full of oddities: a monkey with a nose like a dangling cucumber, a flower as wide as a car tyre that stinks of rotting meat, and snakes, frogs and lizards that glide between the trees. Who acts: forest, flower, snakes. 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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, flower, snakes), 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:2 # text = The forest is full of oddities: a monkey with a nose like a dangling cucumber, a flower as wide as a car tyre that stinks of rotting meat, and snakes, frogs and lizards that glide between the trees. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 oddities oddity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 dangling dangling VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 cucumber cucumber NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 20 as as ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 tyre tyre NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 stinks stink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 rotting rot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 glide glide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 40 between between ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 43 . . 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 | **is** | present | the forest | | | | | of oddities and a monkey with a nose like a dangling cucumber and a flower and snakes and frogs and lizards; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **dangling** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stink** | present | a flower | | | | | of rotting meat | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of meat=Theme | | 4 | **rot** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **glide** | present | snakes and frogs and lizards | | | the trees | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tree=Trajectory | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.lesson:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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