Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 9

Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world, about thirty grams, and fat-tailed dwarf lemurs store fat in their tails to sleep through the dry season.

Who acts: mouse lemur, tailed dwarf lemurs · What happens: be, tail, store, sleep · To what, where: smallest primate, world, fat, tails

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 (mouse lemur, tailed dwarf 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	Madame	Madame	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Berthe	flat
2	Berthe	Berthe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lemur	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Berthe	case
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lemur	compound
5	lemur	lemur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 primate	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 primate	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 primate	det
8	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 primate	amod
9	primate	primate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 primate	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grams	punct
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 thirty	advmod
15	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 grams	nummod
16	grams	gram	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 primate	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 store	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 store	cc
19	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tailed	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 fat	punct
21	tailed	tail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 lemurs	amod
22	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lemurs	amod
23	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 store	nsubj
24	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 primate	conj
25	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 store	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 tails	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tails	nmod:poss
28	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 store	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sleep	mark
30	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 store	advcl
31	through	through	ADP	_	34 season	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 season	det
33	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 season	amod
34	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sleep	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 primate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	Madame Berthe's mouse lemur	the smallest primate	the world		tree rules
2	tail	participle					vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	store	present	tailed dwarf lemurs	fat	Lemurs's tails		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fat=Theme in tail=Location
4	sleep	to-infinitive	tailed dwarf lemurs not said here			season	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:9.

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, 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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