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title: Male proboscis monkeys have long dangling noses that make their call… — Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the bigge… · tree and pragmatics
description: Male proboscis monkeys have long dangling noses that make their calls louder, and proboscis monkeys swim well with partly webbed feet. Who acts: Male proboscis monkeys, long dangling noses, proboscis monkeys, trees. A sentence of the lesson «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower 
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# Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 5

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Male proboscis monkeys have long dangling noses that make their calls louder, and proboscis monkeys swim well with partly webbed feet.

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**Who acts:** Male proboscis monkeys, long dangling noses, proboscis monkeys, trees · **What happens:** have, dangling, make, swim, web, call · **To what, where:** long dangling noses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Male proboscis monkeys, long dangling noses, proboscis monkeys, 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:5
# text = Male proboscis monkeys have long dangling noses that make their calls louder, and proboscis monkeys swim well with partly webbed feet.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	proboscis	proboscis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	dangling	dangling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
7	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
15	proboscis	proboscis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	webbed	web	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | Male proboscis monkeys | long dangling noses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |
| 2 | **dangling** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | long dangling noses |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **swim** | present | proboscis monkeys |  |  |  |  | with webbed feet; well *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with foot=Theme |
| 5 | **web** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | partly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **call** |  | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «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:5`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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