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title: The blue-eyed black lemur is one of the few primates other than huma… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics
description: The blue-eyed black lemur is one of the few primates other than humans with blue eyes, and it lives only in a small area of northwest Madagascar. Who acts: eyed black lemur, indri. A sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa» of the biology course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 14

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The blue-eyed black lemur is one of the few primates other than humans with blue eyes, and it lives only in a small area of northwest Madagascar.

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**Who acts:** eyed black lemur, indri · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** one, small area

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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 (eyed black lemur, indri), 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:14
# text = The blue-eyed black lemur is one of the few primates other than humans with blue eyes, and it lives only in a small area of northwest Madagascar.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	eyed	eye	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lemur	lemur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	primates	primate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	northwest	northwest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
30	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the eyed black lemur | one |  |  |  | of the few primates | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | indri |  |  | a small area of northwest Madagascar |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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