The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 13

Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists who measured it won the joke Ig Nobel Prize in 2014.

Who acts: Banana skins, scientists · What happens: be, measure, win · To what, where: skin, joke, 2014

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 (Banana skins, scientists), 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	Banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skins	compound
2	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slippery	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slippery	cop
4	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 gel	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 because	fixed
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gel	det
8	gel	gel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slippery	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 inside	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 inside	det
11	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gel	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 measured	punct
13	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 won	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 measured	nsubj
15	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 scientists	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 measured	obj
17	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slippery	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 joke	det
19	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 won	obj
20	Ig	Ig	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Prize	compound
21	Nobel	Nobel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Prize	compound
22	Prize	Prize	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 won	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 2014	case
24	2014	2014	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 won	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slippery	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Banana skins			because a gel on the inside; slippery property	tree rules
2	measure	past	scientists	skin			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value
3	win	past	scientists	the joke	2014		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent joke=Beneficiary prize=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:13.

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. 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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