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title: Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers. Who acts: Sifakas. 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 tree and the prag
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# The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 15

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Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers.

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**Who acts:** Sifakas · **What happens:** be, build, leap, bounce · **To what, where:** lemurs, trees, ground

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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 (Sifakas), 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:15
# text = Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers.
# 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): no change
1	Sifakas	sifaka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bounce	bounce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sifakas | lemurs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | lemurs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **leap** | gerund |  |  |  | trees |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tree=Trajectory |
| 4 | **bounce** | present | Sifakas *= sifaka* |  |  | the ground |  | with Sifakas's arms; like dancers; sideways *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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