--- title: Tarsiers are tiny primates whose each eye is about as big as their b… — Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, th… · tree and pragmatics description: Tarsiers are tiny primates whose each eye is about as big as their brain; they cannot move their eyes, so they turn their heads almost all the way round. Who acts: Tarsiers, eye. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tarsiers, eye), 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:9 # text = Tarsiers are tiny primates whose each eye is about as big as their brain; they cannot move their eyes, so they turn their heads almost all the way round. # 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 1 Tarsiers tarsier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 primates primate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 acl:relcl _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 almost almost ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 round round ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Tarsiers | tiny primates | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | each eye | | | | | as Tarsiers's brain; about, big *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **move** | can | Tarsiers *= tarsier* | Tarsiers's eyes | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | present | Tarsiers *= tarsier* | Tarsiers's heads | | | | all way *obl:unmarked*; round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | 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:9`. **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. **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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