--- title: A snub-nosed cousin in Myanmar is reported to sneeze when rain gets… — China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, ta… · tree and pragmatics description: A snub-nosed cousin in Myanmar is reported to sneeze when rain gets into its upturned nose, so it sits with its head down in rain. Who acts: rain, cousin. A sentence of the lesson «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» of the biology course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders/10/) [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/) / [China's mountains: golden snub-nosed m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders/) / 10 # China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders, sentence 10 A snub-nosed cousin in Myanmar is reported to sneeze when rain gets into its upturned nose, so it sits with its head down in rain. **Who acts:** rain, cousin · **What happens:** nose, report, sneeze, get, sit · **To what, where:** nosed cousin, upturned nose, rain This is a sentence of the lesson «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» 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 (rain, cousin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.lesson:10 # text = A snub-nosed cousin in Myanmar is reported to sneeze when rain gets into its upturned nose, so it sits with its head down in rain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 snub snub NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 nosed nose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Myanmar Myanmar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 sneeze sneeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 upturned upturned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **nose** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **report** | present · passive | | a nosed cousin in Myanmar | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **sneeze** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | present | rain | | | rain's upturned nose | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nose=Destination | | 5 | **sit** | present | cousin | | | rain | | with nose's head; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rain=Location | 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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