Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 5
Male ring-tailed lemurs have stink fights, wiping scent onto their tails and waving them at rivals.
Who acts: Male tailed lemurs, stink fights · What happens: tail, have, wipe, wave · To what, where: stink fights, scent, tails, Lemurs, rivals
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 (Male tailed lemurs, stink fights), 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 | Male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lemurs | amod |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tailed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ring | punct |
| 4 | tailed | tail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lemurs | amod |
| 5 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | stink | stink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fights | compound |
| 8 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wiping | punct |
| 10 | wiping | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 have | xcomp |
| 11 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wiping | obj |
| 12 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 14 tails | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tails | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wiping | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 waving | cc |
| 16 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 wiping | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 waving | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 rivals | case |
| 19 | rivals | rival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 waving | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | 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 | tail | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | Male tailed lemurs | stink fights | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wipe | gerund | stink fights not said here | scent | Lemurs's tails | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scent=Theme onto tail=Destination | |||
| 4 | wave | gerund | stink fights not said here | Lemurs = lemur | rivals | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:5.
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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