Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 13
The indri is the biggest living lemur and sings loud songs in family groups; scientists found rhythms in indri songs a little like music.
Who acts: indri, scientists · What happens: be, sing, find · To what, where: biggest living lemur, loud songs, family groups, rhythms, indri songs
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 (indri, scientists), 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 indri | det |
| 2 | indri | indri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lemur | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lemur | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lemur | det |
| 5 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 lemur | amod |
| 6 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lemur | compound |
| 7 | lemur | lemur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sings | cc |
| 9 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lemur | conj |
| 10 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 songs | amod |
| 11 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sings | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 groups | case |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 groups | compound |
| 14 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sings | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 scientists | punct |
| 16 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lemur | parataxis |
| 18 | rhythms | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 songs | case |
| 20 | indri | indri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 songs | compound |
| 21 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rhythms | nmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 little | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADV | _ | 24 like | advmod |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 music | case |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rhythms | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lemur | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the indri | the biggest living lemur | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | the indri not said here | loud songs | family groups | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past | scientists | rhythms | indri songs | like music | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhythm=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:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa.lesson:13.
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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