The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 9

Lions sleep or rest up to 20 hours a day and are most active at night and dawn; one lion can eat about 40 kilograms of meat in a meal and then may not eat again for several days.

Who acts: Lions, one lion · What happens: sleep, rest up, be, eat, not eat · To what, where: 40 kilograms, meal

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, one lion), 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	2 sleep	nsubj
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 rest	cc
4	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sleep	conj
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 rest	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 hours	case
7	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 hours	nummod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rest	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hours	nmod:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 active	cc
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 active	cop
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 active	advmod
14	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sleep	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 active	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dawn	cc
18	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 night	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 lion	nummod
21	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	aux
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sleep	parataxis
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 40	advmod
25	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 kilograms	nummod
26	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eat	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 meat	case
28	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kilograms	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 meal	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 meal	det
31	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 eat	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 eat	advmod
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 eat	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 eat	advmod
36	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 eat	conj
37	again	again	ADV	_	36 eat	advmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 days	case
39	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 days	amod
40	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 eat	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Lions					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest up	present	Lions not said here			hour		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	Lions not said here			night	active property	tree rules
4	eat	can	one lion	40 kilograms of meat	a meal			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Patient
5	not eat	may	one lion not said here			then; again; day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:9.

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): 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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