Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 5
Ring-tailed lemurs live in groups of about 6 to 30 led by females, who get first choice of food.
Who acts: tailed lemurs, females · What happens: tail, live, lead, get · To what, where: groups, first choice
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 (tailed lemurs, females), 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 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tailed | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ring | punct |
| 3 | tailed | tail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lemurs | amod |
| 4 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 groups | case |
| 7 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 6 | case |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 6 | advmod |
| 10 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 groups | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 30 | case |
| 12 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 6 | nmod |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 groups | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 females | case |
| 15 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 led | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 get | nsubj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 females | acl:relcl |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 choice | amod |
| 20 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 food | case |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 choice | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tail | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | live | present | tailed lemurs | groups of 6 to 30 | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | ||||
| 3 | lead | participle | groups of 6 to 30 not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | get | present | females | first choice of food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer choice=Stimulus |
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:5.
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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