--- title: The fossa is Madagascar's biggest meat-eater, shaped like a slim cat… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: The fossa is Madagascar's biggest meat-eater, shaped like a slim cat but related to mongooses, and lemurs give special alarm calls for it. Who acts: fossa, lemurs. A sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa/10/) [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: lemurs of every kind and t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa/) / 10 # Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 10 The fossa is Madagascar's biggest meat-eater, shaped like a slim cat but related to mongooses, and lemurs give special alarm calls for it. **Who acts:** fossa, lemurs · **What happens:** be, shape, give · **To what, where:** biggest meat eater, special alarm calls This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind 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 (fossa, lemurs), 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:10 # text = The fossa is Madagascar's biggest meat-eater, shaped like a slim cat but related to mongooses, and lemurs give special alarm calls for it. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fossa fossa NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 4 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 7 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 eater eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 slim slim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 mongooses mongoose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 22 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | the fossa | Madagascar's biggest meat eater | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | Madagascar's biggest meat eater *not said here* | | | | like a slim cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **give** | present | lemurs | special alarm calls | | | | for fossa | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent call=Theme for it=Asset | 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:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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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