The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps, sentence 0
In Madagascar, four penguins plot clever escapes, flap their flippers and fail to fly, and dream of reaching Antarctica, while the chimps Mason and Phil read the newspaper.
Who acts: four penguins, chimps · What happens: plot, flap, fail, not fly, dream, reach · To what, where: clever escapes, Madagascar, flippers, Antarctica, newspaper
This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps» 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 (four penguins, chimps), 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 | 6 plot | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madagascar | punct |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 penguins | nummod |
| 5 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plot | nsubj |
| 6 | plot | plot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 escapes | amod |
| 8 | escapes | escape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plot | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flap | punct |
| 10 | flap | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 plot | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 flippers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flap | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fail | cc |
| 14 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 flap | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fly | mark |
| 16 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fail | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dream | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dream | cc |
| 19 | dream | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 plot | conj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 reaching | mark |
| 21 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 dream | advcl |
| 22 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 reaching | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 read | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 read | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chimps | det |
| 26 | chimps | chimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 read | nsubj |
| 27 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 chimps | appos |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Phil | cc |
| 29 | Phil | Phil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Mason | conj |
| 30 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plot | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 newspaper | det |
| 32 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 read | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plot | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plot | present | four penguins | clever escapes | Madagascar | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent escape=Theme in madagascar=Destination | |||
| 2 | flap | present | four penguins not said here | penguins's flippers | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flipper=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fail | present | four penguins not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not fly | to-infinitive | four penguins not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dream | present | four penguins not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | reach | gerund | four penguins not said here | Antarctica | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent antarctica=Theme | ||||
| 7 | read | past | the chimps | the newspaper | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Topic |
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:129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps.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): 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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