Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 15

Most kinds of lemurs are endangered, mainly because their forests are being cut down, and they are among the most threatened mammals in the world.

Who acts: Most kinds, forests · What happens: be, cut down · To what, where: forests, world

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 (Most kinds, forests), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 kinds	amod
2	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 endangered	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 lemurs	case
4	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kinds	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 endangered	cop
6	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cut	punct
8	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	14 cut	advmod
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 cut	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 forests	nmod:poss
11	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	aux:pass
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 cut	aux:pass
14	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 endangered	advcl
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 cut	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mammals	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 mammals	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 mammals	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 mammals	cop
20	among	among	ADP	_	24 mammals	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mammals	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 threatened	advmod
23	threatened	threatened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mammals	amod
24	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mammals	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 endangered	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Most kinds of lemurs			endangered property	tree rules
2	cut down	present · passive		lemurs's forests		mainly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	is	present	forests = forest		the world	among the threatened mammals	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:15.

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): no change. 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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