Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 16
Some lemurs drink nectar and carry pollen on their faces from flower to flower, pollinating plants as bees do.
Who acts: lemurs, bees · What happens: drink, carry, flower, pollinate, do · To what, where: nectar, pollen, faces, plants
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 (lemurs, bees), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 lemurs | det |
| 2 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drink | nsubj |
| 3 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drink | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 carry | cc |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drink | conj |
| 7 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 faces | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 faces | nmod:poss |
| 10 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carry | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 flower | case |
| 12 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 flower | case |
| 14 | flower | flower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drink | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pollinating | punct |
| 16 | pollinating | pollinate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 flower | advcl |
| 17 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pollinating | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 19 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 pollinating | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drink | 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 | drink | present | some lemurs | nectar | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | some lemurs not said here | pollen | lemurs's faces | from flower | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme from flower=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | flower | infinitive | some lemurs not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pollinate | gerund | some lemurs not said here | plants | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | present | bees | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:16.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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