--- title: Old cartoons love a monkey slipping on a banana skin, but real monke… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics description: Old cartoons love a monkey slipping on a banana skin, but real monkeys peel bananas neatly and nobody has seen one slip; the joke is for people. Who acts: Old cartoons, monkey, real monkeys, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» of the biology course of Mov --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 3 Old cartoons love a monkey slipping on a banana skin, but real monkeys peel bananas neatly and nobody has seen one slip; the joke is for people. **Who acts:** Old cartoons, monkey, real monkeys, nobody, joke · **What happens:** love, slip, peel, see, be · **To what, where:** monkey, banana skin, bananas, one slip 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 (Old cartoons, monkey, real monkeys, nobody), 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:3 # text = Old cartoons love a monkey slipping on a banana skin, but real monkeys peel bananas neatly and nobody has seen one slip; the joke is for people. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 slipping slip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 banana banana NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 peel peel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 neatly neatly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 21 nsubj _ _ 20 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 slip slip NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | present | Old cartoons | a monkey | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus | | 2 | **slip** | gerund | a monkey *not said here* | | | a banana skin | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **peel** | present | real monkeys | bananas | | | | neatly *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Source | | 4 | **see** | present · perfect | nobody | one slip | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slip=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | the joke | | | | | for people | tree rules | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/2/) - next →: [The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/)