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title: The Sumatran tiger is the smallest living tiger and lives only on Su… — Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sumatran tiger is the smallest living tiger and lives only on Sumatra; fewer than about six hundred are thought to be left in the wild. Who acts: Sumatran tiger. A sentence of the lesson «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» of the biolo
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# Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris, sentence 4

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The Sumatran tiger is the smallest living tiger and lives only on Sumatra; fewer than about six hundred are thought to be left in the wild.

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**Who acts:** Sumatran tiger · **What happens:** be, live, think, leave · **To what, where:** smallest living tiger, Sumatra, fewer, wild

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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 (Sumatran tiger), 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:4
# text = The Sumatran tiger is the smallest living tiger and lives only on Sumatra; fewer than about six hundred are thought to be left in the wild.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Sumatran	sumatran	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	_
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Sumatran tiger | the smallest living tiger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | the Sumatran tiger *not said here* |  |  | Sumatra |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sumatra=Location |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | fewer than six hundred |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | in the wild *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: in wild=Result |

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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:4`.

**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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