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title: Tamarins and marmosets usually have twins, and the father and older… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: Tamarins and marmosets usually have twins, and the father and older brothers and sisters carry the babies most of the time. Who acts: Tamarins, father. 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
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# The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 9

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Tamarins and marmosets usually have twins, and the father and older brothers and sisters carry the babies most of the time.

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**Who acts:** Tamarins, father · **What happens:** have, carry · **To what, where:** twins, babies

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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 (Tamarins, father), 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:9
# text = Tamarins and marmosets usually have twins, and the father and older brothers and sisters carry the babies most of the time.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Tamarins	tamarin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	marmosets	marmoset	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | present | Tamarins and marmosets | twins |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twin=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | present | the father and older brothers and sisters | the babies |  |  |  | most of the time *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-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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