Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 7
Sifakas are leaping lemurs that hop sideways on two legs across open ground and can leap about ten metres from tree to tree.
Who acts: Sifakas, lemurs · What happens: leap, hop · To what, where: lemurs, two legs, ten metres, tree
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 (Sifakas, 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 | Sifakas | sifaka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leaping | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaping | aux |
| 3 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leaping | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hop | nsubj |
| 6 | hop | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lemurs | acl:relcl |
| 7 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 6 hop | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 legs | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 legs | nummod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hop | obl |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ground | amod |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hop | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leap | cc |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 leap | aux |
| 16 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hop | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 ten | advmod |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 metres | nummod |
| 19 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 leap | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leap | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tree | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaping | 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 | leap | present · progressive | Sifakas | lemurs | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lemur=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hop | present | lemurs | two legs | across open ground; sideways property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | leap | can | lemurs not said here | ten metres | tree to tree | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory |
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:7.
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 ×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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