--- title: The aye-aye of Madagascar taps on wood, listens for hollow grub tunn… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics description: The aye-aye of Madagascar taps on wood, listens for hollow grub tunnels, gnaws a hole and hooks the grub out with the long thin middle one of the five fingers on each hand, doing a woodpecker's job. Who acts: aye aye, woodpecker. 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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 (aye aye, woodpecker), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:9 # text = The aye-aye of Madagascar taps on wood, listens for hollow grub tunnels, gnaws a hole and hooks the grub out with the long thin middle one of the five fingers on each hand, doing a woodpecker's job. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nsubj 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 taps tap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 11 listens listen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 grub grub NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 gnaws gnaw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 hooks hook VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 grub grub NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 28 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 woodpecker woodpecker NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 's 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tap** | present | the aye aye of Madagascar | | | | | on wood | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on wood=Patient | | 2 | **listen** | present | the aye aye of Madagascar *not said here* | | | | | for hollow grub tunnels | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tunnel=Theme | | 3 | **gnaw** | present | the aye aye of Madagascar *not said here* | a hole | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | | 4 | **hook out** | present | the aye aye of Madagascar *not said here* | the grub | | | | with the long thin middle one of the five fingers on each hand | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent grub=Patient with one=Instrument | | 5 | **do** | gerund | the aye aye of Madagascar *not said here* | a woodpecker's job | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 6 | **job** | | a woodpecker | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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