Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 10

The fossa is Madagascar's biggest meat-eater, shaped like a slim cat but related to mongooses, and lemurs give special alarm calls for it.

Who acts: fossa, lemurs · What happens: be, shape, give · To what, where: biggest meat eater, special alarm calls

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 (fossa, lemurs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fossa	det
2	fossa	fossa	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eater	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eater	cop
4	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 eater	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Madagascar	case
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 eater	amod
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eater	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 meat	punct
9	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shaped	punct
11	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 eater	acl
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 cat	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cat	det
14	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cat	amod
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shaped	obl
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 related	cc
17	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shaped	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 mongooses	case
19	mongooses	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 related	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 give	cc
22	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 give	nsubj
23	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eater	conj
24	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 calls	amod
25	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 calls	compound
26	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 give	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 eater	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fossa	Madagascar's biggest meat eater		tree rules
2	shape	participle		Madagascar's biggest meat eater not said here	like a slim cat	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	give	present	lemurs	special alarm calls	for fossa	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent call=Theme for it=Asset

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:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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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