The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 14

Lions in a few places, such as parts of Uganda and Tanzania, often climb trees, and scientists are not sure why they do it there and hardly anywhere else.

Who acts: Lions, scientists · What happens: climb, not be, do · To what, where: trees, milk

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 (Lions, scientists), 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	Lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 climb	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 places	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 places	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 places	amod
5	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lions	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 parts	punct
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 parts	case
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 such	fixed
9	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lions	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Uganda	case
11	Uganda	Uganda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 parts	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Tanzania	cc
13	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Uganda	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 climb	punct
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 climb	advmod
16	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 climb	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sure	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sure	cc
20	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sure	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sure	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 sure	advmod
23	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 climb	conj
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 do	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
26	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sure	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 do	obj
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 do	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 anywhere	cc
30	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	31 anywhere	advmod
31	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 there	conj
32	else	else	ADV	_	31 anywhere	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 climb	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	present	Lions in a few places and parts of Uganda and Tanzania	trees		often property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	not is	present	scientists			sure property	tree rules
3	do	present	lions = lion	milk	there		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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:14.

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. 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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