--- title: Wild lemurs live only on Madagascar and a few small islands nearby,… — Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: Wild lemurs live only on Madagascar and a few small islands nearby, and about 90 percent of Madagascar's wild animals and plants live nowhere else. Who acts: Wild lemurs, 90 percent. A sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa» of the biology course of Mova's primary --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 6 Wild lemurs live only on Madagascar and a few small islands nearby, and about 90 percent of Madagascar's wild animals and plants live nowhere else. **Who acts:** Wild lemurs, 90 percent · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** Madagascar 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 (Wild lemurs, 90 percent), 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:6 # text = Wild lemurs live only on Madagascar and a few small islands nearby, and about 90 percent of Madagascar's wild animals and plants live nowhere else. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 12 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 26 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 27 else else ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . 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 | **live** | present | Wild lemurs | | | Madagascar and a few small islands | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on madagascar=Location | | 2 | **live** | present | 90 percent of Madagascar's wild animals and plants | | | | | nowhere *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs.lesson:6`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/127-madagascar-real-lemurs/5/) - next →: [Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye a…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/127-madagascar-real-lemurs/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/127-madagascar-real-lemurs/)