The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas, sentence 3

Timon the meerkat and the giggling hyenas of The Lion King, and Gloria the hippo of Madagascar, are fun, but the real animals are cleverer and stranger than their cartoon copies.

Who acts: Timon, real animals, meerkats · What happens: giggle, be, copy

This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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 (Timon, real animals, meerkats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Timon	Timon	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 fun	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meerkat	det
3	meerkat	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Timon	appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hyenas	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hyenas	det
6	giggling	giggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hyenas	amod
7	hyenas	hyena	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Timon	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 King	case
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
10	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 King	compound
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hyenas	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Gloria	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Gloria	cc
14	Gloria	Gloria	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Timon	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hippo	det
16	hippo	hippo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Gloria	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Madagascar	case
18	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hippo	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Timon	punct
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fun	cop
21	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cleverer	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 cleverer	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 animals	det
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 animals	amod
26	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cleverer	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 cleverer	cop
28	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 fun	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stranger	cc
30	stranger	strange	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 cleverer	conj
31	than	than	ADP	_	34 copies	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 copies	nmod:poss
33	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 copies	compound
34	copies	copy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cleverer	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 fun	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	giggle	gerund			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Timon and the giggling hyenas of the Lion King and Gloria	fun property	tree rules
3	is	present	the real animals	than meerkats's cartoon copies; clever property	tree rules
4	be		the real animals not said here		tree rules
5	copy		meerkats = meerkat		nom copy «communication transitive»: 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, 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:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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.

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