Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 11
The aye-aye's teeth keep growing like a rodent's, so scientists first thought it was a kind of squirrel.
Who acts: teeth, scientists, aye · What happens: keep, grow, think, be · To what, where: kind · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (teeth, scientists, aye), 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 | _ | 2 aye | punct |
| 4 | aye | aye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 aye | case |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 rodent | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rodent | det |
| 11 | rodent | rodent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 growing | obl |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 rodent | case |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 thought | advmod |
| 15 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 thought | advmod |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kind | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kind | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 kind | det |
| 21 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 squirrel | case |
| 23 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kind | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the aye aye's teeth | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | the aye aye's teeth not said here | like a rodent | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | scientists | first property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | aye | a kind | of squirrel | tree rules |
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:11.
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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