The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 5
Serengeti lions rest on rocky outcrops called kopjes, which give them shade, a lookout and safe dens for cubs.
Who acts: Serengeti lions, rocky outcrops · What happens: rest, call, give · To what, where: rocky outcrops, kopjes, shade, lions · 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 (Serengeti lions, rocky outcrops), 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 | Serengeti | serengeti | PROPN | _ | 2 lions | compound |
| 2 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rest | nsubj |
| 3 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 outcrops | case |
| 5 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 outcrops | amod |
| 6 | outcrops | outcrop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rest | obl |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 outcrops | acl |
| 8 | kopjes | kopje | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 give | nsubj |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 outcrops | acl:relcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 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 | 13 shade | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 cubs | case |
| 21 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dens | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present | Serengeti lions | rocky outcrops | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on outcrop=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | rocky outcrops not said here | kopjes | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | present | rocky outcrops | shade and a lookout and safe dens for cubs | lions = lion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient shade=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:5.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.
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