--- title: The slow loris is one of the only venomous primates: it licks a glan… — Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, th… · tree and pragmatics description: The slow loris is one of the only venomous primates: it licks a gland on its arm and mixes the venom with its spit before it bites. Who acts: slow loris, loris. A sentence of the lesson «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» of the biology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/) / 11 # Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 11 The slow loris is one of the only venomous primates: it licks a gland on its arm and mixes the venom with its spit before it bites. **Who acts:** slow loris, loris · **What happens:** be, lick, mix, bite · **To what, where:** one, gland, venom 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 (slow loris, loris), 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:11 # text = The slow loris is one of the only venomous primates: it licks a gland on its arm and mixes the venom with its spit before it bites. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 loris loris NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 primates primate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 licks lick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 gland gland NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 mixes mix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 bites bite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advcl 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the slow loris | one | | | | of the only venomous primates | tree rules | | 2 | **lick** | present | loris | a gland | | | | on loris's arm | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gland=Experiencer on arm=Theme | | 3 | **mix** | present | loris *not said here* | the venom | | | | with loris's spit | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent venom=Patient with spit=Co-Patient | | 4 | **bite** | present | loris | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris.lesson:11`. **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): R5-strong ×1. **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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