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title: Orangutans are the largest tree-living animals, build a fresh sleepi… — The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Orangutans are the largest tree-living animals, build a fresh sleeping nest of bent branches almost every night and live only on Borneo and Sumatra. Who acts: Orangutans. A sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» of the biology course of Mova's primary school 
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# The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 12

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Orangutans are the largest tree-living animals, build a fresh sleeping nest of bent branches almost every night and live only on Borneo and Sumatra.

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**Who acts:** Orangutans · **What happens:** live, be, build · **To what, where:** largest living animals, fresh sleeping nest, Borneo

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» 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 (Orangutans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:12
# text = Orangutans are the largest tree-living animals, build a fresh sleeping nest of bent branches almost every night and live only on Borneo and Sumatra.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Sumatra	Sumatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Orangutans | the largest living animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | present |  | a fresh sleeping nest of bent branches |  |  | night |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product |
| 4 | **live** | present |  |  |  | Borneo and Sumatra |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on borneo=Location |

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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:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:12`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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