--- title: African giant pouched rats are trained to sniff out landmines; they… — Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and… · tree and pragmatics description: African giant pouched rats are trained to sniff out landmines; they are light enough not to set them off and their noses are excellent. Who acts: African giant pouched rats, rats, noses. 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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 (African giant pouched rats, rats, noses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:16 # text = African giant pouched rats are trained to sniff out landmines; they are light enough not to set them off and their noses are excellent. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.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 1 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 pouched pouch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 sniff sniff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 out out ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 landmines landmine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 15 enough enough ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 set set VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pouch** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **train** | present · passive | | African giant pouched rats | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **sniff out** | to-infinitive | African giant pouched rats *not said here* | landmines | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landmine=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | rats *= rat* | | | | | enough, light *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **set off** | to-infinitive | rats *= rat* *not said here* | rats *= rat* | | | | | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition they=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | rats's noses | | | | | excellent *property* | tree rules | 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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:16`. **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. **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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