Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted, sentence 0

Madagascar is a laboratory of the strange: about half of all the world's chameleon kinds, a gecko that is a dead leaf with eyes, a beetle with a neck like a crane, and trees that look planted upside down.

Who acts: Madagascar, gecko, trees · What happens: be, look, plant down · To what, where: laboratory, dead leaf, upside

This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» 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 (Madagascar, gecko, trees), 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	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 laboratory	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laboratory	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 laboratory	det
4	laboratory	laboratory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 half	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 strange	det
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laboratory	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 half	advmod
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 laboratory	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	17 kinds	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 world	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kinds	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 world	case
16	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kinds	compound
17	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 half	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gecko	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 gecko	det
20	gecko	gecko	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 half	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 leaf	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 leaf	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 leaf	det
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 leaf	amod
25	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gecko	acl:relcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 eyes	case
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 leaf	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 beetle	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 beetle	det
30	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laboratory	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 neck	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 neck	det
33	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beetle	nmod
34	like	like	ADP	_	36 crane	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 crane	det
36	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beetle	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 trees	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 trees	cc
39	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laboratory	conj
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 look	nsubj
41	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 trees	acl:relcl
42	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 look	xcomp
43	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 planted	obj
44	down	down	ADV	_	42 planted	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laboratory	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Madagascar	a laboratory and a beetle with a neck like a crane and trees	the strange nmod	tree rules
2	is a	present	a gecko	a dead leaf	with eyes	tree rules
3	look	present	trees			tree rules
4	plant down	participle	trees not said here	upside	down property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=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:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.lesson:0.

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 ×2, 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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