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title: Sifakas leap about 10 metres between trees and on the ground bound s… — Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa · tree and pragmatics
description: Sifakas leap about 10 metres between trees and on the ground bound sideways on two legs, because their legs are much longer than their arms. Who acts: Sifakas, legs. A sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 12

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Sifakas leap about 10 metres between trees and on the ground bound sideways on two legs, because their legs are much longer than their arms.

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**Who acts:** Sifakas, legs · **What happens:** leap, bound, be · **To what, where:** 10 metres, ground, two legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa» 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 (Sifakas, legs), 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:12
# text = Sifakas leap about 10 metres between trees and on the ground bound sideways on two legs, because their legs are much longer than their arms.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sifakas	sifaka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leap	leap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	advcl	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | present | Sifakas | 10 metres between trees |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bound** | present | Sifakas *not said here* | the ground |  | two legs |  | sideways *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present | sifakas's legs |  |  |  |  | than sifakas's arms; long *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs.lesson:12`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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