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title: Ring-tailed lemurs sunbathe in the morning to warm up, and wild lemu… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Ring-tailed lemurs sunbathe in the morning to warm up, and wild lemurs live only on Madagascar. Who acts: tailed lemurs, wild lemurs. 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 pragmatics of
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# The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 4

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Ring-tailed lemurs sunbathe in the morning to warm up, and wild lemurs live only on Madagascar.

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**Who acts:** tailed lemurs, wild lemurs · **What happens:** tail, sunbathe, warm up, live · **To what, where:** Madagascar

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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 (tailed lemurs, wild 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:4
# text = Ring-tailed lemurs sunbathe in the morning to warm up, and wild lemurs live only on Madagascar.
# 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): 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	sunbathe	sunbathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | 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 | **sunbathe** | present | tailed lemurs |  |  |  | morning |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | tailed lemurs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **live** | present | wild lemurs |  |  | Madagascar |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on madagascar=Location |

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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:4`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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