--- title: The slow loris is a small primate from Asia with huge eyes that move… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics description: The slow loris is a small primate from Asia with huge eyes that moves slowly and quietly to sneak up on insects and stay unnoticed. Who acts: slow loris, small primate. 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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 (slow loris, small primate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:6 # text = The slow loris is a small primate from Asia with huge eyes that moves slowly and quietly to sneak up on insects and stay unnoticed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 loris loris NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 primate primate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 15 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 15 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 sneak sneak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 25 unnoticed unnoticed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the slow loris | a small primate | | Asia | | with huge eyes | tree rules | | 2 | **move** | present | a small primate | | | | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sneak up** | to-infinitive | a small primate *not said here* | | | | | on insects | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on insect=Trajectory | | 4 | **stay** | infinitive | a small primate *not said here* | | | | | unnoticed *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:6`. **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): no change. **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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