Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 11
Lemurs live wild only on Madagascar and a few nearby islands; about a hundred kinds are known, and many are in danger.
Who acts: Lemurs, many · What happens: live, know, be · To what, where: Madagascar, hundred kinds, danger
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 (Lemurs, many), 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 | Lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 live | xcomp |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 Madagascar | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Madagascar | case |
| 6 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 islands | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 islands | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 islands | amod |
| 10 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 islands | amod |
| 11 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Madagascar | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 known | punct |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 hundred | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hundred | det |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 kinds | nummod |
| 16 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 known | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 known | aux:pass |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 live | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 danger | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 danger | cc |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 danger | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 danger | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 danger | case |
| 24 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Lemurs | Madagascar and a few nearby islands | wild property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on madagascar=Location | |||
| 2 | know | present · passive | hundred kinds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | present | many | danger | 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:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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