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title: Tarsiers are the only primates that eat only animals, catching insec… — Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tarsiers are the only primates that eat only animals, catching insects, spiders and small lizards. Who acts: Tarsiers, only primates. A sentence of the lesson «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho
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# Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 10

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Tarsiers are the only primates that eat only animals, catching insects, spiders and small lizards.

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**Who acts:** Tarsiers, only primates · **What happens:** be, eat, catch · **To what, where:** only primates, animals, insects

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» 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 (Tarsiers, only primates), 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:10
# text = Tarsiers are the only primates that eat only animals, catching insects, spiders and small lizards.
# 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): no change
1	Tarsiers	tarsier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	primates	primate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Tarsiers | the only primates |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | the only primates | animals |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
| 3 | **catch** | gerund | the only primates *not said here* | insects and spiders and small lizards |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme |

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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:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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