--- title: Paradise tree snakes flatten their bodies and wriggle in the air to… — Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the bigge… · tree and pragmatics description: Paradise tree snakes flatten their bodies and wriggle in the air to glide from tree to tree; Borneo also has gliding frogs, lizards and squirrels, perhaps because its tall trees stand far apart. Who acts: tree snakes, Borneo, tall trees. 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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 (tree snakes, Borneo, tall 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:9 # text = Paradise tree snakes flatten their bodies and wriggle in the air to glide from tree to tree; Borneo also has gliding frogs, lizards and squirrels, perhaps because its tall trees stand far apart. # 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 Paradise paradise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flatten flatten VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wriggle wriggle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 glide glide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Borneo borneo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 gliding glide ADJ VBG _ 23 amod _ _ 23 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 35 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 apart apart ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flatten** | present | tree snakes | snakes's bodies | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | | 2 | **wriggle** | present | tree snakes *not said here* | | | the air | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **glide** | to-infinitive | tree snakes *not said here* | | | tree | | to tree | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tree=Source to tree=Trajectory | | 4 | **have** | present | Borneo | gliding frogs and lizards and squirrels | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient | | 5 | **stand** | present | air's tall trees | | | | | apart, perhaps *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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