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title: Ring-tailed lemurs live in groups of about 6 to 30 led by females, w… — Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa · tree and pragmatics
description: Ring-tailed lemurs live in groups of about 6 to 30 led by females, who get first choice of food. Who acts: tailed lemurs, females. 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 pragmatics 
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# Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 5

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Ring-tailed lemurs live in groups of about 6 to 30 led by females, who get first choice of food.

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**Who acts:** tailed lemurs, females · **What happens:** tail, live, lead, get · **To what, where:** groups, first choice

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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 (tailed lemurs, females), 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:5
# text = Ring-tailed lemurs live in groups of about 6 to 30 led by females, who get first choice of food.
# 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): no change
1	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tailed	tail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | present | tailed lemurs |  |  | groups of 6 to 30 |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location |
| 3 | **lead** | participle |  | groups of 6 to 30 *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **get** | present | females | first choice of food |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer choice=Stimulus |

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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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**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): no change. **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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