--- title: The Madagascar periwinkle contains chemicals used to make medicines… — Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenr… · tree and pragmatics description: The Madagascar periwinkle contains chemicals used to make medicines for some childhood cancers, which shows why losing rare plants may mean losing future medicines. Who acts: Madagascar periwinkle, losing. 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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 (Madagascar periwinkle, losing), 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:14 # text = The Madagascar periwinkle contains chemicals used to make medicines for some childhood cancers, which shows why losing rare plants may mean losing future medicines. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 periwinkle periwinkle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 medicines medicine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 12 childhood childhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 cancers cancer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 18 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj 19 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 23 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 future future ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 medicines medicine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contain** | present | the Madagascar periwinkle | chemicals | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chemical=Theme | | 2 | **use** | participle | | chemicals *not said here* | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | | medicines | | | | for some childhood cancers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent medicine=Product for cancer=Asset | | 4 | **show** | present | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **lose** | gerund | | rare plants | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Eventuality | | 6 | **mean** | may | losing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **lose** *not said to happen* | gerund | losing *not said here* | future medicines | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Eventuality | 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:14`. **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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