--- title: Baobabs have huge fat trunks that store water and short branches tha… — Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenr… · tree and pragmatics description: Baobabs have huge fat trunks that store water and short branches that look like roots; six of the eight kinds of baobab grow only in Madagascar. Who acts: Baobabs, huge fat trunks, short branches, six. 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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 (Baobabs, huge fat trunks, short branches, six), 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:11 # text = Baobabs have huge fat trunks that store water and short branches that look like roots; six of the eight kinds of baobab grow only in Madagascar. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Baobabs baobab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 baobab baobab NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 25 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **have** | present | Baobabs | huge fat trunks and short branches | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient | | 2 | **store** | present | huge fat trunks and short branches | water | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **look** | present | short branches | | | | | like roots | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **grow** | present | six of the eight kinds of baobab | | | Madagascar | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in madagascar=Location | 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:11`. **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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