--- title: In ring-tailed lemur groups the females lead, eat first and win most… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics description: In ring-tailed lemur groups the females lead, eat first and win most disputes, and many kinds of lemur are among the most endangered primates. Who acts: females, many kinds. 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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 (females, many kinds), 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:6 # text = In ring-tailed lemur groups the females lead, eat first and win most disputes, and many kinds of lemur are among the most endangered primates. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 tailed tail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 lemur lemur NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 8 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lead lead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 11 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 first first ADV RB Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 15 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 16 disputes dispute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 lemur lemur NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 24 among among ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 27 advmod _ _ 27 endangered endangered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 primates primate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **lead** | present | the females | tailed lemur groups *not said here* | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | present | the females *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **win** | present | the females *not said here* | most disputes | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | many kinds of lemur | | | tailed lemur groups | | among the endangered primates | 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:6`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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