--- title: In ring-tailed lemurs and many other lemurs, females lead the group… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: In ring-tailed lemurs and many other lemurs, females lead the group and get the best food, which is unusual among mammals. Who acts: females. 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 prag --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa, sentence 6 In ring-tailed lemurs and many other lemurs, females lead the group and get the best food, which is unusual among mammals. **Who acts:** females · **What happens:** tail, lead, get, be · **To what, where:** group, tailed lemurs, best food 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 (females), 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:6 # text = In ring-tailed lemurs and many other lemurs, females lead the group and get the best food, which is unusual among mammals. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 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 _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lead lead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 unusual unusual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 24 among among ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **lead** | present | females | the group | | tailed lemurs and many other lemurs | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent group=Theme in lemur=Destination | | 3 | **get** | present | females *not said here* | the best food | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | among mammals; unusual *property* | 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:6`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×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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