--- title: Madagascar broke away from other land millions of years ago, and the… — Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: Madagascar broke away from other land millions of years ago, and the animals that reached it, maybe on floating rafts of plants, slowly changed into new kinds found nowhere else. Who acts: Madagascar, animals. 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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 (Madagascar, animals), 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:1 # text = Madagascar broke away from other land millions of years ago, and the animals that reached it, maybe on floating rafts of plants, slowly changed into new kinds found nowhere else. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Madagascar madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 6 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:VBG:_ 22 rafts raft NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 33 else else ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break away** | past | Madagascar | millions of years | | | | from other land; ago, away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from land=Co-Patient | | 2 | **reach** | past | the animals | land | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **change** | past | the animals | | | floating rafts of plants | | into new kinds *result*; slowly *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into kind=Result | | 5 | **find** | participle | | new kinds *not said here* | | | | nowhere *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | 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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