--- title: Tenrecs look like hedgehogs or shrews but are actually related to el… — Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenr… · tree and pragmatics description: Tenrecs look like hedgehogs or shrews but are actually related to elephants and aardvarks, African animals that dig for ants. Who acts: Tenrecs, African animals. A sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» of the biology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth/10/) [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: chameleons, leaf-tailed ge…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth/) / 10 # Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted, sentence 10 Tenrecs look like hedgehogs or shrews but are actually related to elephants and aardvarks, African animals that dig for ants. **Who acts:** Tenrecs, African animals · **What happens:** look, be, dig This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» 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 (Tenrecs, African animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.lesson:10 # text = Tenrecs look like hedgehogs or shrews but are actually related to elephants and aardvarks, African animals that dig for ants. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.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 Tenrecs tenrec NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 hedgehogs hedgehog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 shrews shrew NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 actually actually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 aardvarks aardvark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | Tenrecs | | | | | like hedgehogs or shrews | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | Tenrecs *not said here* | | | | | to elephants and aardvarks; actually, related *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **dig** | present | African animals | | | | | for ants | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for ant=Theme | 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:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.lesson:10`. **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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