The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 1

Lemurs are not monkeys but an older branch of the primate family, and in King Julien's real groups it is the females, not a king, who are in charge and eat first.

Who acts: Lemurs, family, king · What happens: not be, be, eat · To what, where: monkeys, females, charge

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 (Lemurs, family, king), 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	Lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 monkeys	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 monkeys	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 monkeys	advmod
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 branch	cc
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 branch	det
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 branch	amod
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 monkeys	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 family	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 family	det
11	primate	primate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 family	compound
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 branch	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 groups	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 groups	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	20 groups	case
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Julien	nmod:desc
17	Julien	Julien	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 groups	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Julien	case
19	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 groups	amod
20	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 monkeys	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 females	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 females	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 females	det
24	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 monkeys	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 king	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 king	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 females	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 charge	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 charge	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 charge	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 charge	case
33	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 king	acl:relcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 eat	cc
35	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 charge	conj
36	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 eat	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 monkeys	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Lemurs	monkeys but a older branch of the primate family and Julien King's real groups and the females			tree rules
2	is a	present	family	the females			tree rules
3	is	present	a king		charge		tree rules
4	eat	present	a king not said here			first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «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:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:1.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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