The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 8
Young males leave or are pushed out of the pride at about two or three years old, because the grown males see them as rivals, often wandering with brothers or cousins in a group called a coalition.
Who acts: Young males, grown males, group · What happens: leave, push out, grow, see, wonder, call · To what, where: pride, lions, coalition · 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 (Young males, grown males, group), 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 | 3 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 pushed | cc |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pushed | aux:pass |
| 6 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 leave | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 pride | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pride | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pride | det |
| 10 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pushed | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 two | advmod |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 three | cc |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 two | conj |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pushed | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 years | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 males | det |
| 21 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 males | amod |
| 22 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 see | nsubj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pushed | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 rivals | case |
| 26 | rivals | rival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 see | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wandering | punct |
| 28 | often | often | ADV | _ | 29 wandering | advmod |
| 29 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 see | advcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 brothers | case |
| 31 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 wandering | obl |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 cousins | cc |
| 33 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 brothers | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 group | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 group | det |
| 36 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brothers | nmod |
| 37 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 group | acl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 coalition | det |
| 39 | coalition | coalition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 called | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | Young males | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | push out | present · passive | Young males not said here | the pride | year | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: pride=Theme | |||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | see | present | the grown males | lions = lion | as rivals | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus as rival=Attribute | |||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the grown males not said here | with brothers in a group or cousins; often property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | call | participle | a group not said here | a coalition | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coalition=Recipient |
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:8.
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): 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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