Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 2

Picture a cold morning when you stand by a sunny window to warm up: ring-tailed lemurs do just that, sitting with arms spread wide like little sun worshippers.

Who acts: you, tailed lemurs · What happens: picture, stand, warm up, tail, do, sit · To what, where: that, arms

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 (you, tailed 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 stand	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 stand	nsubj
7	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 morning	acl:relcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 window	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 window	det
10	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 window	amod
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stand	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 warm	mark
13	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stand	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 warm	compound:prt
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
16	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tailed	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 ring	punct
18	tailed	tail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lemurs	amod
19	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 that	advmod
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 do	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sitting	punct
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 do	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 arms	case
26	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sitting	obl
27	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 arms	acl
28	wide	wide	ADV	_	27 spread	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 worshippers	case
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 worshippers	amod
31	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 worshippers	compound
32	worshippers	worshipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 spread	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here		morning		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	stand	present	you			by a sunny window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
3	warm up	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	tail	participle					vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	do	present	tailed lemurs	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
6	sit	gerund	tailed lemurs not said here			with arms	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	spread	participle		arms not said here		like little sun worshippers; wide property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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:2.

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): R5-strong ×2. 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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