The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 15
Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers.
Who acts: Sifakas · What happens: be, build, leap, bounce · To what, where: lemurs, trees, ground
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 (Sifakas), 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 | Sifakas | sifaka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lemurs | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lemurs | cop |
| 3 | lemurs | lemur | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lemurs | acl |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 leaping | mark |
| 6 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 built | advcl |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leaping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bounce | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 bounce | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bounce | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bounce | nsubj |
| 15 | bounce | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | conj |
| 16 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 15 bounce | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 arms | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 arms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bounce | obl |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 bounce | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dancers | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 dancers | case |
| 23 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bounce | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lemurs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sifakas | lemurs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | lemurs not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | leap | gerund | trees | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tree=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | bounce | present | Sifakas = sifaka | the ground | with Sifakas's arms; like dancers; sideways property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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