Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 10
The aye-aye taps on bark, listens for grub tunnels, gnaws a hole and pulls the grub out with its long thin middle finger, doing the job of a woodpecker.
Who acts: aye aye, woodpecker · What happens: tap, listen, gnaw, pull out, do, job · To what, where: hole, grub, job
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 (aye aye, woodpecker), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 aye | det |
| 2 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aye | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 aye | punct |
| 4 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taps | nsubj |
| 5 | taps | tap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bark | case |
| 7 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taps | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 listens | punct |
| 9 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 taps | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 tunnels | case |
| 11 | grub | grub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tunnels | compound |
| 12 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 listens | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gnaws | punct |
| 14 | gnaws | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 listens | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hole | det |
| 16 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gnaws | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pulls | cc |
| 18 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gnaws | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grub | det |
| 20 | grub | grub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pulls | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 pulls | compound:prt |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 finger | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 finger | nmod:poss |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 finger | amod |
| 25 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 finger | amod |
| 26 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 finger | amod |
| 27 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pulls | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 doing | punct |
| 29 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 pulls | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 job | det |
| 31 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 doing | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 woodpecker | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 woodpecker | det |
| 34 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 job | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tap | present | the aye aye | on bark | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on bark=Patient | ||||
| 2 | listen | present | the aye aye not said here | for grub tunnels | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tunnel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gnaw | present | the aye aye not said here | a hole | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pull out | present | the aye aye not said here | the grub | with aye's long thin middle finger | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do | gerund | the aye aye not said here | the job of a woodpecker | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | job | a woodpecker | nom job «act intransitive»: of=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:10.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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