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title: Palm oil is in many foods and soaps, so choosing products from bette… — Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Palm oil is in many foods and soaps, so choosing products from better-run plantations can help the forest. Who acts: Palm oil, choosing. 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 s
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# Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 17

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Palm oil is in many foods and soaps, so choosing products from better-run plantations can help the forest.

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**Who acts:** Palm oil, choosing · **What happens:** be, choose, help · **To what, where:** many foods, products, better run plantations, forest

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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 (Palm oil, choosing), 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:17
# text = Palm oil is in many foods and soaps, so choosing products from better-run plantations can help the forest.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	soaps	soap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod
12	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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** | present | Palm oil |  |  | many foods and soaps |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | gerund |  | products |  | better run plantations |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent product=Theme from plantation=Source |
| 3 | **help** | can | choosing | the forest |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Beneficiary |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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