The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 11

Cubs play constantly, chasing tails and wrestling, and play is practice for hunting; the black tuft on a lion's tail is unique among cats.

Who acts: Cubs, play, black tuft · What happens: play, chase, be · To what, where: tails, practice

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 (Cubs, play, black tuft), 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	Cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	nsubj
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	2 play	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chasing	punct
5	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 play	advcl
6	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chasing	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wrestling	cc
8	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tails	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 practice	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 practice	cc
11	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 practice	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 practice	cop
13	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 hunting	case
15	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 practice	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 hunting	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tuft	det
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tuft	amod
19	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 unique	nsubj
20	on	on	ADP	_	24 tail	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lion	det
22	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tail	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 lion	case
24	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tuft	nmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 unique	cop
26	unique	unique	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 play	parataxis
27	among	among	ADP	_	28 cats	case
28	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 unique	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 play	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	present	Cubs		constantly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chase	gerund	Cubs not said here	tails and wrestling		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
3	is a	present	play	practice	for hunting	tree rules
4	is	present	the black tuft on a lion's tail		among cats; unique property	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, 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:11.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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