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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, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson:13 # text = Madagascar had giant lemurs, some as heavy as a grown man or heavier, and some hung upside down in trees like sloths. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 acl _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:det 18 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 19 upside upside ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 down down ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 23 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Madagascar | giant lemurs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemur=Patient | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hang** | past | some | | | trees like sloths | | upside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=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:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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