--- title: In the cartoon Madagascar a lemur king throws parties and a fossa pa… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: In the cartoon Madagascar a lemur king throws parties and a fossa pack is a gang of villains; the real lemurs are led by females, and the real fossa is a lone hunter related to mongooses. Who acts: lemur king, fossa pack, females, real fossa. 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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 (lemur king, fossa pack, females, real fossa), 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:3 # text = In the cartoon Madagascar a lemur king throws parties and a fossa pack is a gang of villains; the real lemurs are led by females, and the real fossa is a lone hunter related to mongooses. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 lemur lemur NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 fossa fossa NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 gang gang NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 villains villain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 fossa fossa NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 lone lone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 36 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:acl 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 mongooses mongoose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** | present | a lemur king | cartoon | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a fossa pack | a gang | | | | of villains | tree rules | | 3 | **lead** | present · passive | females | the real lemurs | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | the real fossa | a lone hunter | | | | | 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:3`. **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. **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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