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title: Think of a fire alarm going off in your school: a smell, a noise or… — Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of a fire alarm going off in your school: a smell, a noise or a bright colour can be a warning, and Sumatra's animals use all three, from a stinking flower to a loris with venom in its elbows. Who acts: you, fire alarm, bright colour, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Sumatra: the smallest ti
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# Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 2

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Think of a fire alarm going off in your school: a smell, a noise or a bright colour can be a warning, and Sumatra's animals use all three, from a stinking flower to a loris with venom in its elbows.

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**Who acts:** you, fire alarm, bright colour, animals · **What happens:** think, go off, be, use · **To what, where:** smell, school, warning, three, stinking flower

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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 (you, fire alarm, bright colour, animals), 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:2
# text = Think of a fire alarm going off in your school: a smell, a noise or a bright colour can be a warning, and Sumatra's animals use all three, from a stinking flower to a loris with venom in its elbows.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	stinking	stinking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	loris	loris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a fire alarm | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go off** | gerund | a fire alarm *not said here* | a smell and a noise or a warning |  | your school |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in school=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | can | a bright colour | a warning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | present | Sumatra's animals | all three |  | a stinking flower to a loris with venom in colour's elbows |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient |

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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:2`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-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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