The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 11
Male mandrills have the brightest faces of any monkey, bright blue and red, and the brightest belong to the strongest males; Rafiki in The Lion King is drawn like a mandrill crossed with a baboon.
Who acts: Male mandrills, brightest · What happens: have, belong, draw, cross · To what, where: brightest faces, Rafiki, mandrill
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 (Male mandrills, brightest), 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 | Male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mandrills | amod |
| 2 | mandrills | mandrill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 faces | det |
| 5 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 faces | amod |
| 6 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 monkey | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 monkey | det |
| 9 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faces | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blue | punct |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blue | amod |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 monkey | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 red | cc |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blue | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 belong | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 belong | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brightest | det |
| 18 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 belong | nsubj |
| 19 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 males | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 males | det |
| 22 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 males | amod |
| 23 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 belong | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 drawn | punct |
| 25 | Rafiki | Rafiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 drawn | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 King | case |
| 27 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 28 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 King | compound |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Rafiki | nmod |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 drawn | aux:pass |
| 31 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 have | parataxis |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 mandrill | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 mandrill | det |
| 34 | mandrill | mandrill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drawn | obl |
| 35 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 mandrill | acl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 baboon | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 baboon | det |
| 38 | baboon | baboon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 crossed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | 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 | have | present | Male mandrills | the brightest faces of any monkey | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 2 | belong | present | the brightest | to the strongest males | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | present · passive | Rafiki in the Lion King | like a mandrill | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cross | participle | a mandrill not said here | with a baboon | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:11.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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