--- title: Ring-tailed lemurs sit facing the sun with arms spread to warm up af… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: Ring-tailed lemurs sit facing the sun with arms spread to warm up after cold nights. Who acts: tailed lemurs. A sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa/) / 4 # Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 4 Ring-tailed lemurs sit facing the sun with arms spread to warm up after cold nights. **Who acts:** tailed lemurs · **What happens:** tail, sit, face, spread, warm up · **To what, where:** sun, arms 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 (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:4 # text = Ring-tailed lemurs sit facing the sun with arms spread to warm up after cold nights. # 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 Ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 tailed tail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 4 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 facing face VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 after after ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tail** | participle | | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sit** | present | tailed lemurs | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **face** | gerund | tailed lemurs *not said here* | the sun | | | | with arms | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sun=Destination with arm=Theme | | 4 | **spread** | participle | | arms *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | | | | | night | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:4`. **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. 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