--- title: Ring-tailed lemurs sit in the morning sun with their arms out like c… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics description: Ring-tailed lemurs sit in the morning sun with their arms out like children doing yoga, warming their bellies after a cold night; in the wild they live only on Madagascar, an island off Africa. Who acts: tailed lemurs, children, 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 (tailed lemurs, children, lemurs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:0 # text = Ring-tailed lemurs sit in the morning sun with their arms out like children doing yoga, warming their bellies after a cold night; in the wild they live only on Madagascar, an island off Africa. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.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 Ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 tailed tail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 out out ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 yoga yoga NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 warming warm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 bellies belly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 32 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 38 off off ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **tail** | participle | | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sit** | present | tailed lemurs | | | the morning sun with lemurs's arms like children | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | | 3 | **do** | gerund | children *not said here* | yoga | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yoga=Eventuality | | 4 | **warm** | gerund | children *not said here* | lemurs's bellies | | | night | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belly=Patient | | 5 | **live** | present | lemurs *= lemur* | | | the wild | | on Madagascar | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=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:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:0`. **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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