--- title: Some lemurs drink nectar and carry pollen on their faces from flower… — Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: Some lemurs drink nectar and carry pollen on their faces from flower to flower, pollinating plants as bees do. Who acts: lemurs, bees. 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 dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/127-madagascar-real-lemurs/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/127-madagascar-real-lemurs/) / 16 # Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 16 Some lemurs drink nectar and carry pollen on their faces from flower to flower, pollinating plants as bees do. **Who acts:** lemurs, bees · **What happens:** drink, carry, flower, pollinate, do · **To what, where:** nectar, pollen, faces, plants 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 (lemurs, bees), 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:16 # text = Some lemurs drink nectar and carry pollen on their faces from flower to flower, pollinating plants as bees do. # 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 ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 14 flower flower VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 pollinating pollinate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 17 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | present | some lemurs | nectar | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Patient | | 2 | **carry** | present | some lemurs *not said here* | pollen | | lemurs's faces | | from flower | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme from flower=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **flower** | infinitive | some lemurs *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pollinate** | gerund | some lemurs *not said here* | plants | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | present | bees | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs.lesson:16`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye a…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/127-madagascar-real-lemurs/15/) - next →: [Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras,…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/127-madagascar-real-lemurs/)