--- title: Lemurs live wild only on Madagascar and a few nearby islands; about… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: Lemurs live wild only on Madagascar and a few nearby islands; about a hundred kinds are known, and many are in danger. Who acts: Lemurs, many. 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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 (Lemurs, many), 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:11 # text = Lemurs live wild only on Madagascar and a few nearby islands; about a hundred kinds are known, and many are in danger. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 nearby nearby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 13 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJ:PronType=Ind 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Lemurs | | | Madagascar and a few nearby islands | | wild *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on madagascar=Location | | 2 | **know** | present · passive | | hundred kinds | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | many | | | danger | | | tree rules | 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:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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