--- title: Male mandrills have the brightest faces of any monkey, bright blue a… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics description: Male mandrills have the brightest faces of any monkey, bright blue and red, and the brightest belong to the strongest males; Rafiki in The Lion King is drawn like a mandrill crossed with a baboon. Who acts: Male mandrills, brightest. 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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 (Male mandrills, brightest), 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:11 # text = Male mandrills have the brightest faces of any monkey, bright blue and red, and the brightest belong to the strongest males; Rafiki in The Lion King is drawn like a mandrill crossed with a baboon. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 mandrills mandrill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 nsubj _ _ 19 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 20 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 Rafiki Rafiki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 32 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 mandrill mandrill NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 crossed cross VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 baboon baboon NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | present | Male mandrills | the brightest faces of any monkey | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 2 | **belong** | present | the brightest | | | | | to the strongest males | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **draw** | present · passive | | Rafiki in the Lion King | | | | like a mandrill | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **cross** | participle | | a mandrill *not said here* | | | | with a baboon | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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