Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 12
Sifakas leap about 10 metres between trees and on the ground bound sideways on two legs, because their legs are much longer than their arms.
Who acts: Sifakas, legs · What happens: leap, bound, be · To what, where: 10 metres, ground, two legs
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 (Sifakas, legs), 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 | Sifakas | sifaka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leap | nsubj |
| 2 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 10 | advmod |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 metres | nummod |
| 5 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leap | obl |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 metres | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bound | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 sideways | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | obl |
| 12 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 leap | conj |
| 13 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 12 bound | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 legs | case |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 legs | nummod |
| 16 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bound | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 longer | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 longer | mark |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 legs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 longer | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 longer | cop |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 longer | advmod |
| 23 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 leap | advcl |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 arms | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 arms | nmod:poss |
| 26 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 longer | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leap | punct |
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 | leap | present | Sifakas | 10 metres between trees | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bound | present | Sifakas not said here | the ground | two legs | sideways property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | is | present | sifakas's legs | than sifakas's arms; long property | 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:12.
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, R7-rel-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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