Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 0

Madagascar is a big island off the coast of Africa that broke away from other land so long ago that its animals went their own way, and nearly all of them live nowhere else.

Who acts: Madagascar, big island, animals, all · What happens: be, break away, go, live · To what, where: big island, own way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind 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 (Madagascar, big island, animals, all), 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	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 island	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 island	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 island	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 island	amod
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 coast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coast	det
8	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 island	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Africa	case
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 coast	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 broke	nsubj
12	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 island	acl:relcl
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 broke	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 land	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 land	amod
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broke	obl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 ago	advmod
19	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 broke	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 went	mark
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 animals	nmod:poss
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ago	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 way	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 way	amod
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 live	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 live	cc
29	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	30 all	advmod
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 live	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 all	nmod
33	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 island	conj
34	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 live	advmod
35	else	else	ADV	_	33 live	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 island	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Madagascar	a big island	off the coast of Africa	tree rules
2	break away	past	a big island		from other land; ago, away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from land=Co-Patient
3	go	past	land's animals	animals's own way		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	live	present	all		else, 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:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa.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): 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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