Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 1

Madagascar broke away from other land millions of years ago, and the animals that reached it, maybe on floating rafts of plants, slowly changed into new kinds found nowhere else.

Who acts: Madagascar, animals · What happens: break away, reach, float, change, find · To what, where: millions, land, floating rafts, new kinds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa» 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 (Madagascar, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Madagascar	madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 broke	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obl
7	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 millions	nmod
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 broke	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 broke	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 changed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 animals	det
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 changed	nsubj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 reached	nsubj
16	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 animals	acl:relcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reached	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 changed	punct
19	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	22 rafts	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 rafts	case
21	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 rafts	amod
22	rafts	raft	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 changed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 plants	case
24	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rafts	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 changed	punct
26	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	27 changed	advmod
27	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 broke	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 kinds	case
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 kinds	amod
30	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 changed	obl
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 kinds	acl
32	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 found	advmod
33	else	else	ADV	_	32 nowhere	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 broke	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break away	past	Madagascar	millions of years		from other land; ago, away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from land=Co-Patient
2	reach	past	the animals	land			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	float	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	change	past	the animals		floating rafts of plants	into new kinds result; slowly property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into kind=Result
5	find	participle		new kinds not said here		nowhere property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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, 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:127-madagascar-real-lemurs.lesson:1.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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