Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 7
In the morning ring-tailed lemurs sit with arms open and bellies to the sun to warm up, because their belly fur is thin.
Who acts: tailed lemurs, belly fur · What happens: tail, sit, warm up, be
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, belly fur), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sit | obl |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tailed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ring | punct |
| 6 | tailed | tail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lemurs | amod |
| 7 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sit | nsubj |
| 8 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 arms | case |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sit | obl |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 arms | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bellies | cc |
| 13 | bellies | belly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 arms | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sun | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sit | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 warm | mark |
| 18 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sit | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 warm | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thin | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 thin | mark |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fur | nmod:poss |
| 23 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fur | compound |
| 24 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thin | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 thin | cop |
| 26 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sit | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sit | 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 | tail | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sit | present | tailed lemurs | morning | with arms and bellies; to the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | warm up | to-infinitive | tailed lemurs not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | lemurs's belly fur | thin property | 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:7.
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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