--- title: With no hunters around, small animals can become bigger and birds ca… — Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red c… · tree and pragmatics description: With no hunters around, small animals can become bigger and birds can stop flying, like the heavy kakapo parrot that walks through the New Zealand forest at night. Who acts: small animals, birds, heavy kakapo parrot. A sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kak --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the d…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs/) / 2 # Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 2 With no hunters around, small animals can become bigger and birds can stop flying, like the heavy kakapo parrot that walks through the New Zealand forest at night. **Who acts:** small animals, birds, heavy kakapo parrot · **What happens:** become, stop, fly, walk · **To what, where:** Zealand forest This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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 (small animals, birds, heavy kakapo parrot), 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:2 # text = With no hunters around, small animals can become bigger and birds can stop flying, like the heavy kakapo parrot that walks through the New Zealand forest at night. # 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): no change 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 det _ _ 3 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 4 around around ADV RB _ 9 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 15 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 kakapo kakapo NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 through through ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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** | can | small animals | | | | | big *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **stop** | can | birds | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **fly** | gerund | birds *not said here* | | | | | like the heavy kakapo parrot | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **walk** | present | the heavy kakapo parrot | | | the Zealand forest | night | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | 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: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): 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. 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