--- title: Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world, ab… — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa · tree and pragmatics description: Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world, about thirty grams, and fat-tailed dwarf lemurs store fat in their tails to sleep through the dry season. Who acts: mouse lemur, tailed dwarf 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 (mouse lemur, tailed dwarf 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:9 # text = Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world, about thirty grams, and fat-tailed dwarf lemurs store fat in their tails to sleep through the dry season. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Madame Madame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 2 Berthe Berthe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 lemur lemur NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 primate primate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 grams gram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod:unmarked 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 tailed tail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 dwarf dwarf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 31 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Madame Berthe's mouse lemur | the smallest primate | | the world | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tail** | participle | | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **store** | present | tailed dwarf lemurs | fat | | Lemurs's tails | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fat=Theme in tail=Location | | 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | tailed dwarf lemurs *not said here* | | | | season | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×1, 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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