The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 7

Many monkeys of Central and South America have a gripping, or prehensile, tail that holds branches like a fifth hand, with ridged skin under the tip; no African or Asian monkeys have one.

Who acts: Many monkeys, gripping tail, African monkeys · What happens: have, hold, ridge · To what, where: gripping tail, branches, one

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 (Many monkeys, gripping tail, African monkeys), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 monkeys	amod
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Central	case
4	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 monkeys	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 America	cc
6	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 America	compound
7	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Central	conj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tail	det
10	gripping	grip	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tail	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 prehensile	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 prehensile	cc
13	prehensile	prehensile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gripping	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tail	punct
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 holds	nsubj
17	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tail	acl:relcl
18	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 holds	obj
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 hand	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hand	det
21	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hand	amod
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 holds	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 skin	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 skin	case
25	ridged	ridge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 skin	amod
26	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hand	appos
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 tip	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tip	det
29	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 skin	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 monkeys	det
32	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 monkeys	amod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 Asian	cc
34	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 African	conj
35	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 have	nsubj
36	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 holds	conj
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 have	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Many monkeys of Central and South America	a gripping tail		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	hold	present	a gripping tail	branches	like a fifth hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
3	ridge	participle				tree rules
4	have	present	no African monkeys	one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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:7.

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): 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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