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title: In the morning ring-tailed lemurs sit with arms open and bellies to… — Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning ring-tailed lemurs sit with arms open and bellies to the sun to warm up, because their belly fur is thin. Who acts: tailed lemurs, belly fur. 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 dependenc
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# Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa, sentence 7

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In the morning ring-tailed lemurs sit with arms open and bellies to the sun to warm up, because their belly fur is thin.

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**Who acts:** tailed lemurs, belly fur · **What happens:** tail, sit, warm up, be

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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, belly fur), 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:7
# text = In the morning ring-tailed lemurs sit with arms open and bellies to the sun to warm up, because their belly fur is thin.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	tailed	tail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bellies	belly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **tail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | present | tailed lemurs |  |  |  | morning | with arms and bellies; to the sun | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | tailed lemurs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | lemurs's belly fur |  |  |  |  | thin *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:7`.

**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.

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