--- title: Madagascar is a big island off the coast of Africa that broke away f… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: Madagascar is a big island off the coast of Africa that broke away from other land so long ago that its animals went their own way, and nearly all of them live nowhere else. Who acts: Madagascar, big island, animals, all. 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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 (Madagascar, big island, animals, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa.lesson:0 # text = Madagascar is a big island off the coast of Africa that broke away from other land so long ago that its animals went their own way, and nearly all of them live nowhere else. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa.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 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 off off ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 33 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 34 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 35 else else ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 a** | present | Madagascar | a big island | | | | off the coast of Africa | tree rules | | 2 | **break away** | past | a big island | | | | | from other land; ago, away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from land=Co-Patient | | 3 | **go** | past | land's animals | animals's own way | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 4 | **live** | present | all | | | | | else, 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:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa.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): 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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