Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 4
Ring-tailed lemurs sit facing the sun with arms spread to warm up after cold nights.
Who acts: tailed lemurs · What happens: tail, sit, face, spread, warm up · To what, where: sun, 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 (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 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tailed | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ring | punct |
| 3 | tailed | tail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lemurs | amod |
| 4 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sit | nsubj |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sit | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 facing | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 arms | case |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 facing | obl |
| 11 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 arms | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 warm | mark |
| 13 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 spread | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 warm | compound:prt |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 nights | case |
| 16 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nights | amod |
| 17 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 warm | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tail | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sit | present | tailed lemurs | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | face | gerund | tailed lemurs not said here | the sun | with arms | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sun=Destination with arm=Theme | |||
| 4 | spread | participle | arms not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | warm up | to-infinitive | night | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:4.
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, 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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