The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 2

In the monkey house a spider monkey hangs by its tail alone like a fifth hand and eats with both hands, a howler monkey booms so loud it fills the building, and a capuchin cracks a nut with a stone like a hammer.

Who acts: spider monkey, hand, capuchin · What happens: hang, eat, boom, fill, crack · To what, where: monkey house, building, nut

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 (spider monkey, hand, capuchin), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	compound
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hangs	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
6	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 monkey	compound
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hangs	nsubj
8	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fills	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 tail	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tail	nmod:poss
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hangs	obl
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 tail	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 hand	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hand	det
15	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hangs	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eats	cc
18	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hangs	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 hands	case
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 hands	det
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eats	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 booms	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 booms	det
24	howler	howler	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 monkey	compound
25	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 booms	compound
26	booms	boom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hangs	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 loud	advmod
28	loud	loud	ADV	_	30 fills	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fills	nsubj
30	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 building	det
32	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fills	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cracks	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cracks	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 capuchin	det
36	capuchin	capuchin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cracks	nsubj
37	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fills	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 nut	det
39	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cracks	obj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 stone	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 stone	det
42	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cracks	obl
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 hammer	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 hammer	det
45	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cracks	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hangs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	present	a spider monkey		the monkey house	by house's tail; like a fifth hand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location
2	eat	present	a spider monkey not said here			with both hands	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	boom	present	a spider monkey not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fill	present	hand	the building		loud property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent building=Patient
5	crack	present	a capuchin	a nut		with a stone; like a hammer	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent nut=Patient with stone=Instrument

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:2.

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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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