--- title: The indri is the biggest living lemur and sings loud songs in family… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: The indri is the biggest living lemur and sings loud songs in family groups; scientists found rhythms in indri songs a little like music. Who acts: indri, scientists. 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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 (indri, scientists), 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:13 # text = The indri is the biggest living lemur and sings loud songs in family groups; scientists found rhythms in indri songs a little like music. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 indri indri NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 6 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 lemur lemur NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 18 rhythms rhythm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 indri indri NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 little little ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 26 . . 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 a** | present | the indri | the biggest living lemur | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the indri *not said here* | loud songs | | family groups | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | scientists | rhythms | | indri songs | | like music | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhythm=Topic | 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:13`. **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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