The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 0
Ring-tailed lemurs sit in the morning sun with their arms out like children doing yoga, warming their bellies after a cold night; in the wild they live only on Madagascar, an island off Africa.
Who acts: tailed lemurs, children, lemurs · What happens: tail, sit, do, warm, live · To what, where: morning sun, yoga, bellies, wild
This is a sentence of the lesson «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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, children, 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sun | compound |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 arms | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arms | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sun | nmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 children | advmod |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 children | case |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 arms | nmod |
| 16 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 children | acl |
| 17 | yoga | yoga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 doing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 warming | punct |
| 19 | warming | warm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 doing | advcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bellies | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bellies | belly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 warming | obj |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 night | det |
| 24 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 night | amod |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 warming | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 live | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 wild | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wild | det |
| 29 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 live | obl |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 live | nsubj |
| 31 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sit | parataxis |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 Madagascar | advmod |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 Madagascar | case |
| 34 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 live | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 island | punct |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 island | det |
| 37 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Madagascar | appos |
| 38 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 Africa | case |
| 39 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 island | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | 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 | the morning sun with lemurs's arms like children | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | children not said here | yoga | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoga=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | warm | gerund | children not said here | lemurs's bellies | night | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belly=Patient | |||
| 5 | live | present | lemurs = lemur | the wild | on Madagascar | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location |
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:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.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 ×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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