--- title: Mouse lemurs are among the smallest primates; the smallest weighs ab… — Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: Mouse lemurs are among the smallest primates; the smallest weighs about 30 grams, and big eyes help them hunt at night; some sleep through the dry season on fat stored in their tails. Who acts: Mouse lemurs, smallest, big eyes, lemurs. 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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 (Mouse lemurs, smallest, big eyes, lemurs), 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:9 # text = Mouse lemurs are among the smallest primates; the smallest weighs about 30 grams, and big eyes help them hunt at night; some sleep through the dry season on fat stored in their tails. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 among among ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 primates primate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 10 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod 11 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 grams gram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 26 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 27 through through ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 stored store VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Mouse lemurs | | | | | among the smallest primates | tree rules | | 2 | **weigh** | present | the smallest | 30 grams | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value | | 3 | **help** | present | big eyes | lemurs *= lemur* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **hunt** | infinitive | lemurs *= lemur* *not said here* | | | | night | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sleep** | present | some | | | fat | season | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **store** | participle | | fat *not said here* | | lemurs's tails | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tail=Location | 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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