--- title: In the film Madagascar, King Julien dances at a lemur party, tiny Mo… — Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: In the film Madagascar, King Julien dances at a lemur party, tiny Mort clings to his feet, and the hungry foosa chase them all; every one of these animals is real. Who acts: King, Mort, hungry foosa, one. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Mort, hungry foosa, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs.lesson:0 # text = In the film Madagascar, King Julien dances at a lemur party, tiny Mort clings to his feet, and the hungry foosa chase them all; every one of these animals is real. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 127-madagascar-real-lemurs.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 3 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 4 Madagascar madagascar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 Julien Julien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 dances dance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 lemur lemur NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 Mort Mort PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 clings cling VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 foosa foosa NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 chase chase VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 nmod:unmarked _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | present | King | the film | | Madagascar | | at a lemur party | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in madagascar=Location | | 2 | **cling** | present | Mort | | | | | to Mort's feet | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to foot=Co-Theme | | 3 | **chase** | present | the hungry foosa | feet *= foot* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | every one of this animals | | | | | real *property* | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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