Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 6
Wild lemurs live only on Madagascar and a few small islands nearby, and about 90 percent of Madagascar's wild animals and plants live nowhere else.
Who acts: Wild lemurs, 90 percent · What happens: live · To what, where: Madagascar
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 (Wild lemurs, 90 percent), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lemurs | amod |
| 2 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 Madagascar | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Madagascar | case |
| 6 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 islands | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 islands | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 islands | amod |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 islands | amod |
| 11 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Madagascar | conj |
| 12 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 11 islands | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 percent | cc |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 90 | advmod |
| 16 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 percent | nummod |
| 17 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 live | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 animals | case |
| 19 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 animals | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Madagascar | case |
| 21 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 animals | amod |
| 22 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 percent | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 plants | cc |
| 24 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 animals | conj |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | conj |
| 26 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 live | advmod |
| 27 | else | else | ADV | _ | 26 nowhere | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | 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 | live | present | Wild lemurs | Madagascar and a few small islands | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on madagascar=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | 90 percent of Madagascar's wild animals and plants | nowhere property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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