--- title: Island animals often become smaller over many generations, perhaps b… — Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, th… · tree and pragmatics description: Island animals often become smaller over many generations, perhaps because there is less room and less food, so Sumatra has the smallest living tiger, the smallest rhino and the smallest Asian elephants. Who acts: Island animals, less room, Sumatra. 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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 (Island animals, less room, Sumatra), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris.lesson:1 # text = Island animals often become smaller over many generations, perhaps because there is less room and less food, so Sumatra has the smallest living tiger, the smallest rhino and the smallest Asian elephants. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Island Island NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 there there PRON EX _ 13 expl _ _ 13 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 14 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 15 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 Sumatra Sumatra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 25 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 26 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 rhino rhino NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 34 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 36 . . 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 | **become** | present | Island animals | | | | over many generations | often, small *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **does** | present | less room and less food | | | there | | perhaps *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | Sumatra | the smallest living tiger | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Patient | 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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