The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 3
Young males like Simba really do leave home at two or three years old, and Mufasa's circle of life is real science: lions eat antelopes, antelopes eat grass, and dead lions feed the soil that grows the grass.
Who acts: Young males, circle, lions, antelopes, dead lions, soil · What happens: leave, be, eat, feed, grow · To what, where: real science, antelopes, grass, soil
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 (Young males, circle, lions, antelopes), 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 males | amod |
| 2 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 Simba | case |
| 4 | Simba | Simba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 males | nmod |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 leave | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | aux |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 leave | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 three | cc |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 two | conj |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leave | obl |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 years | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 science | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 science | cc |
| 17 | Mufasa | Mufasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 circle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Mufasa | case |
| 19 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 science | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 circle | nmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 science | cop |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 science | amod |
| 24 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 science | punct |
| 26 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 eat | nsubj |
| 27 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 science | parataxis |
| 28 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 eat | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 eat | punct |
| 30 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 eat | nsubj |
| 31 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 eat | conj |
| 32 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 eat | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 feed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 feed | cc |
| 35 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lions | amod |
| 36 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 feed | nsubj |
| 37 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 eat | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 soil | det |
| 39 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 feed | obj |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 grows | nsubj |
| 41 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 soil | acl:relcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 grass | det |
| 43 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 grows | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
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 | leave | present · do-support | Young males like Simba | year | home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Mufasa's circle of life | real science | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | lions | antelopes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antelope=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | antelopes | grass | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | ||||
| 5 | feed | present | dead lions | the soil | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | grow | present | the soil | the grass | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grass=Theme |
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: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): R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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