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title: Male ring-tailed lemurs have stink fights, wiping scent onto their t… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics
description: Male ring-tailed lemurs have stink fights, wiping scent onto their tails and waving them at rivals. Who acts: Male tailed lemurs, stink fights. 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 pr
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# Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 5

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Male ring-tailed lemurs have stink fights, wiping scent onto their tails and waving them at rivals.

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**Who acts:** Male tailed lemurs, stink fights · **What happens:** tail, have, wipe, wave · **To what, where:** stink fights, scent, tails, Lemurs, rivals

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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 (Male tailed lemurs, stink fights), 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:5
# text = Male ring-tailed lemurs have stink fights, wiping scent onto their tails and waving them at rivals.
# 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): no change
1	Male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	tailed	tail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	stink	stink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wiping	wipe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
11	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	rivals	rival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | 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 | **have** | present | Male tailed lemurs | stink fights |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wipe** | gerund | stink fights *not said here* | scent |  | Lemurs's tails |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scent=Theme onto tail=Destination |
| 4 | **wave** | gerund | stink fights *not said here* | Lemurs *= lemur* |  | rivals |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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