Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 14

The fossa is real: Madagascar's biggest predator, a slim cat-like animal with a long tail, related to mongooses, which climbs head-first down trees and hunts lemurs.

Who acts: fossa, slim like animal · What happens: be, climb down, hunt · To what, where: head, lemurs

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 (fossa, slim like animal), 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	2 fossa	det
2	fossa	fossa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 real	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 predator	punct
6	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 predator	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Madagascar	case
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 predator	amod
9	predator	predator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 real	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 animal	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 animal	det
12	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animal	amod
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 like	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
15	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animal	amod
16	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 predator	appos
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 tail	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tail	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tail	amod
20	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 animal	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 related	punct
22	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 predator	amod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 mongooses	case
24	mongooses	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 related	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 animal	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 climbs	nsubj
27	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 animal	acl:relcl
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 climbs	obl:unmarked
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 head	punct
30	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 head	advmod
31	down	down	ADP	_	27 climbs	compound:prt
32	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 climbs	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hunts	cc
34	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 climbs	conj
35	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hunts	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fossa		real property	tree rules
2	climb down	present	a slim like animal with a long tail	head		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	hunt	present	a slim like animal with a long tail not said here	lemurs		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemur=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, 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:14.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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