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title: Videos of tickled pet lorises raising their arms are not cute: the l… — Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Videos of tickled pet lorises raising their arms are not cute: the loris is frightened and getting ready to bite. Who acts: tickled pet lorises, Videos. 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 
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# Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 12

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Videos of tickled pet lorises raising their arms are not cute: the loris is frightened and getting ready to bite.

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**Who acts:** tickled pet lorises, Videos · **What happens:** tickle, raise, not be, frighten, get, bite · **To what, where:** arms, loris

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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 (tickled pet lorises, Videos), 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:12
# text = Videos of tickled pet lorises raising their arms are not cute: the loris is frightened and getting ready to bite.
# 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	Videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	tickled	tickle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lorises	loris	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	cute	cute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	loris	loris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tickle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund | tickled pet lorises *not said here* | Videos's arms |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | Videos of tickled pet lorises |  |  |  |  | cute *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **frighten** | present · passive |  | the loris |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **bite** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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**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.

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