--- title: On islands with no predators, some small animals become giants, like… — Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red c… · tree and pragmatics description: On islands with no predators, some small animals become giants, like the giant rats of Flores and giant tortoises; this is called island gigantism. Who acts: small animals. 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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 (small animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:11 # text = On islands with no predators, some small animals become giants, like the giant rats of Flores and giant tortoises; this is called island gigantism. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 11 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Flores Flores PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 tortoises tortoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 26 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 gigantism gigantism NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | present | some small animals | giants like the giant rats of Flores and giant tortoises | | islands with no predators | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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