The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 3

Old cartoons love a monkey slipping on a banana skin, but real monkeys peel bananas neatly and nobody has seen one slip; the joke is for people.

Who acts: Old cartoons, monkey, real monkeys, nobody, joke · What happens: love, slip, peel, see, be · To what, where: monkey, banana skin, bananas, one slip

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 (Old cartoons, monkey, real monkeys, nobody), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cartoons	amod
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 love	nsubj
3	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 love	obj
6	slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 monkey	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 skin	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 skin	det
9	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skin	compound
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slipping	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 peel	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 peel	cc
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 monkeys	amod
14	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 peel	nsubj
15	peel	peel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 love	conj
16	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 peel	obj
17	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	15 peel	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 seen	cc
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 seen	nsubj
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 peel	conj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 slip	nummod
23	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 people	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 joke	det
26	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 people	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 people	cop
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 people	case
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 love	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 love	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	present	Old cartoons	a monkey			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus
2	slip	gerund	a monkey not said here		a banana skin		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	peel	present	real monkeys	bananas		neatly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Source
4	see	present · perfect	nobody	one slip			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slip=Stimulus
5	is	present	the joke			for people	tree rules

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:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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