The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 6

In ring-tailed lemur groups the females lead, eat first and win most disputes, and many kinds of lemur are among the most endangered primates.

Who acts: females, many kinds · What happens: tail, lead, eat, win, be · To what, where: tailed lemur groups, most disputes

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 (females, many kinds), 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	_	6 groups	case
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tailed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ring	punct
4	tailed	tail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 groups	amod
5	lemur	lemur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 groups	compound
6	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 primates	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 females	det
8	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lead	nsubj
9	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 groups	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lead	conj
12	first	first	ADV	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 eat	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 win	cc
14	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lead	conj
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 disputes	amod
16	disputes	dispute	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 win	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 primates	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 primates	cc
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kinds	amod
20	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 primates	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 lemur	case
22	lemur	lemur	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kinds	nmod
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 primates	cop
24	among	among	ADP	_	28 primates	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 primates	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 endangered	advmod
27	endangered	endangered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 primates	amod
28	primates	primate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lead	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tail	participle					vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	lead	present	the females	tailed lemur groups not said here			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme
3	eat	present	the females not said here			first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	win	present	the females not said here	most disputes			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Eventuality
5	is	present	many kinds of lemur		tailed lemur groups	among the endangered primates	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:6.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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