Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, sentence 11

Mandrills of Central African rainforests are the biggest monkeys; a big male can weigh over 30 kilograms, with a red nose and blue ridges that are brightest on the strongest males.

Who acts: Mandrills, big male, blue ridges · What happens: be, weigh · To what, where: biggest monkeys, 30 kilograms, strongest males

This is a sentence of the lesson «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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 (Mandrills, big male, blue ridges), 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	Mandrills	mandrill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 monkeys	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 rainforests	case
3	Central	Central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rainforests	compound
4	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rainforests	amod
5	rainforests	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mandrills	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 monkeys	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 monkeys	det
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 monkeys	amod
9	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 monkeys	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 male	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 male	amod
13	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weigh	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 weigh	aux
15	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 monkeys	parataxis
16	over	over	ADV	_	17 30	advmod
17	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 kilograms	nummod
18	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 weigh	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 nose	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 nose	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 nose	det
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nose	amod
23	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weigh	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ridges	cc
25	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ridges	amod
26	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 nose	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 brightest	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 brightest	cop
29	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 ridges	acl:relcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 males	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 males	det
32	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 males	amod
33	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 brightest	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 monkeys	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mandrills of Central African rainforests	the biggest monkeys			tree rules
2	weigh	can	a big male	30 kilograms		with a red nose and blue ridges	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value
3	is	present	blue ridges		the strongest males	bright 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:015-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops.lesson:11.

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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