--- title: The aye-aye taps on bark, listens for grub tunnels, gnaws a hole and… — Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: The aye-aye taps on bark, listens for grub tunnels, gnaws a hole and pulls the grub out with its long thin middle finger, doing the job of a woodpecker. Who acts: aye aye, woodpecker. 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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 (aye aye, woodpecker), 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:10 # text = The aye-aye taps on bark, listens for grub tunnels, gnaws a hole and pulls the grub out with its long thin middle finger, doing the job of a woodpecker. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 taps tap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 listens listen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 grub grub NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 gnaws gnaw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 grub grub NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 woodpecker woodpecker NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tap** | present | the aye aye | | | | | on bark | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on bark=Patient | | 2 | **listen** | present | the aye aye *not said here* | | | | | for grub tunnels | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tunnel=Theme | | 3 | **gnaw** | present | the aye aye *not said here* | a hole | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | | 4 | **pull out** | present | the aye aye *not said here* | the grub | | | | with aye's long thin middle finger | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | gerund | the aye aye *not said here* | the job of a woodpecker | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 6 | **job** | | a woodpecker | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: of=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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