Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 0
In Madagascar, Marty the zebra dreams of running free, Gloria the hippo floats gracefully, and Melman the giraffe worries about being ill, all after escaping from New York's Central Park Zoo.
Who acts: Marty, Gloria, Melman · What happens: dream, run, float, worry, be, escape · To what, where: Park Zoo
This is a sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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 (Marty, Gloria, Melman), 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 | _ | 2 Madagascar | case |
| 2 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Marty | punct |
| 4 | Marty | Marty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dreams | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dreams | det |
| 6 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dreams | compound |
| 7 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Madagascar | parataxis |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 running | mark |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 dreams | advcl |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 running | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 free | punct |
| 12 | Gloria | Gloria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 floats | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hippo | det |
| 14 | hippo | hippo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Gloria | appos |
| 15 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dreams | conj |
| 16 | gracefully | gracefully | ADV | _ | 15 floats | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 worries | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Melman | cc |
| 19 | Melman | Melman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 worries | nsubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 giraffe | det |
| 21 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Melman | compound |
| 22 | worries | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 floats | conj |
| 23 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 25 ill | mark |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 ill | cop |
| 25 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 worries | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 escaping | punct |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 escaping | advmod |
| 28 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 29 escaping | mark |
| 29 | escaping | escape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Madagascar | advcl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 Zoo | case |
| 31 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 32 York | compound |
| 32 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Zoo | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 York | case |
| 34 | Central | Central | PROPN | _ | 35 Park | compound |
| 35 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Zoo | compound |
| 36 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 escaping | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madagascar | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | present | Marty | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | Marty not said here | free property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | float | present | Gloria | gracefully property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | worry | present | Melman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | gerund | Melman not said here | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | escape | gerund | New York's Park Zoo | all property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from zoo=Initial_Location |
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:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:0.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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