The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 1

Real Serengeti lions rest on rocky islands called kopjes, which give shade, a lookout and safe dens, and the film makers went to East Africa to study them.

Who acts: Real Serengeti lions, rocky islands, film makers · What happens: rest, call, give, go, study · To what, where: rocky islands, kopjes, shade, East, makers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» 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 (Real Serengeti lions, rocky islands, film makers), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lions	amod
2	Serengeti	Serengeti	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lions	compound
3	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rest	nsubj
4	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 islands	case
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 islands	amod
7	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rest	obl
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 islands	acl
9	kopjes	kopje	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 called	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 give	nsubj
12	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 islands	acl:relcl
13	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lookout	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lookout	det
16	lookout	lookout	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shade	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dens	cc
18	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dens	amod
19	dens	den	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lookout	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 makers	det
23	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 makers	compound
24	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rest	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 East	case
27	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
28	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 East	flat
29	to	to	PART	_	30 study	mark
30	study	study	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 went	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 study	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rest	present	Real Serengeti lions		rocky islands	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on island=Location
2	call	participle	rocky islands not said here	kopjes		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	present	rocky islands	shade and a lookout and safe dens		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shade=Theme
4	go	past	the film makers		East	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to east=Initial_Location
5	study	to-infinitive	the film makers not said here	makers = maker		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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:124-the-lion-king-real-lions.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-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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