--- title: Pangolins are among the most smuggled mammals, killed for scales tha… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics description: Pangolins are among the most smuggled mammals, killed for scales that are only keratin and cure nothing. Who acts: Pangolins, scales. A sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/14/) [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/) / [Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-n…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/) / 14 # Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 14 Pangolins are among the most smuggled mammals, killed for scales that are only keratin and cure nothing. **Who acts:** Pangolins, scales · **What happens:** smuggle, be, kill, cure · **To what, where:** smuggled mammals, keratin, nothing This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 (Pangolins, scales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:14 # text = Pangolins are among the most smuggled mammals, killed for scales that are only keratin and cure nothing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Pangolins pangolin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 among among ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 6 advmod _ _ 6 smuggled smuggle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 keratin keratin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 cure cure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smuggle** | participle | | | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Pangolins | | | | | among the smuggled mammals | tree rules | | 3 | **kill** | participle | | the smuggled mammals *not said here* | | | | for scales | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | scales | keratin | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cure** | present | scales *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer nothing=Source | 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:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:14`. **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): 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. 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