Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 3
In the cartoon Madagascar a lemur king throws parties and a fossa pack is a gang of villains; the real lemurs are led by females, and the real fossa is a lone hunter related to mongooses.
Who acts: lemur king, fossa pack, females, real fossa · What happens: throw, be, lead · To what, where: cartoon, gang, real lemurs, lone hunter
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 (lemur king, fossa pack, females, real fossa), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Madagascar | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Madagascar | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throws | obl |
| 4 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cartoon | appos |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | lemur | lemur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throws | nsubj |
| 8 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 throws | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gang | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pack | det |
| 12 | fossa | fossa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pack | compound |
| 13 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gang | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 gang | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 gang | det |
| 16 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parties | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 villains | case |
| 18 | villains | villain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gang | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 led | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lemurs | det |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lemurs | amod |
| 22 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 led | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 led | aux:pass |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 throws | parataxis |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 females | case |
| 26 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 led | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hunter | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hunter | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fossa | det |
| 30 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fossa | amod |
| 31 | fossa | fossa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hunter | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 hunter | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hunter | det |
| 34 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hunter | amod |
| 35 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | conj |
| 36 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hunter | amod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 mongooses | case |
| 38 | mongooses | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 related | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 throws | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present | a lemur king | cartoon | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a fossa pack | a gang | of villains | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lead | present · passive | females | the real lemurs | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the real fossa | a lone hunter | 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:3.
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): R7-rel-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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