--- title: Picture a cold morning when you stand by a sunny window to warm up:… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a cold morning when you stand by a sunny window to warm up: ring-tailed lemurs do just that, sitting with arms spread wide like little sun worshippers. Who acts: you, tailed lemurs. 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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 (you, tailed 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:2 # text = Picture a cold morning when you stand by a sunny window to warm up: ring-tailed lemurs do just that, sitting with arms spread wide like little sun worshippers. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 sunny sunny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 tailed tail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 wide wide ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:amod 31 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 worshippers worshipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | morning | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand** | present | you | | | | | by a sunny window | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | | 3 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **tail** | participle | | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | present | tailed lemurs | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 6 | **sit** | gerund | tailed lemurs *not said here* | | | | | with arms | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **spread** | participle | | arms *not said here* | | | | like little sun worshippers; wide *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×2. **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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