--- title: In Madagascar, Marty the zebra dreams of running free, Gloria the hi… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos an… · tree and pragmatics description: In Madagascar, Marty the zebra dreams of running free, Gloria the hippo floats gracefully, and Melman the giraffe worries about being ill, all after escaping from New York's Central Park Zoo. Who acts: Marty, Gloria, Melman. 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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 (Marty, Gloria, Melman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:0 # text = In Madagascar, Marty the zebra dreams of running free, Gloria the hippo floats gracefully, and Melman the giraffe worries about being ill, all after escaping from New York's Central Park Zoo. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Marty Marty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 dreams dream VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 8 of of SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ _ 10 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 Gloria Gloria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 14 hippo hippo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound 15 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 gracefully gracefully ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Melman Melman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 21 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 22 worries worry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 about about SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 24 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 cop _ _ 25 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 all all ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 after after SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 escaping escape VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 31 New New PROPN NNP _ 32 compound _ _ 32 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 Central Central PROPN NNP _ 35 compound _ _ 35 Park Park PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Zoo Zoo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dream** | present | Marty | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **run** | gerund | Marty *not said here* | | | | | free *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **float** | present | Gloria | | | | | gracefully *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **worry** | present | Melman | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | gerund | Melman *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **escape** | gerund | | | | New York's Park Zoo | | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from zoo=Initial\_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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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