--- title: That is why island animals are so strange, and also why they are in… — Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red c… · tree and pragmatics description: That is why island animals are so strange, and also why they are in such danger when ships bring rats, cats and pigs they have never had to fear. Who acts: That, animals, ships, rats. A sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» of the b --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 3 That is why island animals are so strange, and also why they are in such danger when ships bring rats, cats and pigs they have never had to fear. **Who acts:** That, animals, ships, rats · **What happens:** be, bring, not have, fear · **To what, where:** such danger, rats 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 (That, animals, ships, rats), 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:3 # text = That is why island animals are so strange, and also why they are in such danger when ships bring rats, cats and pigs they have never had to fear. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 4 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 also also ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 12 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:acl:relcl 21 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advcl 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | strange *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | animals *= animal* | | | such danger | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bring** | present | ships | rats and cats and pigs | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | | 4 | **not** **have** | present · perfect | animals *= animal* | rats and cats and pigs *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fear** | to-infinitive | rats and cats and pigs *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. 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