--- title: Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics description: Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists who measured it won the joke Ig Nobel Prize in 2014. Who acts: Banana skins, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/) / 13 # The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 13 Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists who measured it won the joke Ig Nobel Prize in 2014. **Who acts:** Banana skins, scientists · **What happens:** be, measure, win · **To what, where:** skin, joke, 2014 This is a sentence of the lesson «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Banana skins, scientists), 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:13 # text = Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists who measured it won the joke Ig Nobel Prize in 2014. # 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 1 Banana banana NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 8 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 gel gel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 inside inside NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 measured measure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 Ig Ig PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 Nobel Nobel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Prize Prize PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 2014 2014 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 25 . . 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 | **is** | present | Banana skins | | | | | because a gel on the inside; slippery *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **measure** | past | scientists | skin | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value | | 3 | **win** | past | scientists | the joke | | 2014 | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent joke=Beneficiary prize=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/12/) - next →: [The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/)