--- title: Golden bamboo lemurs eat young bamboo that contains cyanide, a poiso… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: Golden bamboo lemurs eat young bamboo that contains cyanide, a poison; their bodies cope with a poison that would harm other animals, and eating a food no one else can eat means less competition. Who acts: Golden bamboo lemurs, young bamboo, bodies, poison. 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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 (Golden bamboo lemurs, young bamboo, bodies, poison), 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:15 # text = Golden bamboo lemurs eat young bamboo that contains cyanide, a poison; their bodies cope with a poison that would harm other animals, and eating a food no one else can eat means less competition. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 cyanide cyanide NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 cope cope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 csubj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 else else ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl:relcl _ _ 35 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 36 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 amod _ _ 37 competition competition NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Golden bamboo lemurs | young bamboo | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient | | 2 | **contain** | present | young bamboo | cyanide | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cyanide=Theme | | 3 | **cope** | present | Lemurs's bodies | | | | | with a poison | vn cope-83-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with poison=Theme | | 4 | **harm** | would | a poison | other animals | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | | 5 | **eat** | gerund | | a food | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 6 | **eat** | can | no one | a food *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 7 | **mean** | present | eating | less competition | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent competition=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. 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