--- title: The fossa is real: Madagascar's biggest predator, a slim cat-like an… — Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: The fossa is real: Madagascar's biggest predator, a slim cat-like animal with a long tail, related to mongooses, which climbs head-first down trees and hunts lemurs. Who acts: fossa, slim like animal. 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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 (fossa, slim like animal), 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:14 # text = The fossa is real: Madagascar's biggest predator, a slim cat-like animal with a long tail, related to mongooses, which climbs head-first down trees and hunts lemurs. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fossa fossa NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 predator predator NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 12 slim slim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 13 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 15 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 mongooses mongoose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 30 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 28 advmod _ _ 31 down down ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 32 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the fossa | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **climb down** | present | a slim like animal with a long tail | head | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 3 | **hunt** | present | a slim like animal with a long tail *not said here* | lemurs | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemur=Theme | 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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