Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 1
A real meerkat would never live alone: meerkats live in mobs of up to about 50, sleep piled together in burrows, and take turns standing tall on their back legs as lookouts.
Who acts: real meerkat, meerkats, turns · What happens: not live, live, sleep, pile, take, stand · To what, where: mobs, burrows, turns, back legs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» 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 (real meerkat, meerkats, turns), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 meerkat | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 meerkat | amod |
| 3 | meerkat | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 live | advmod |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 live | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 live | punct |
| 9 | meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 live | nsubj |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mobs | case |
| 12 | mobs | mob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 live | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 50 | case |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 50 | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 50 | case |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 50 | advmod |
| 17 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 mobs | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sleep | punct |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 live | conj |
| 20 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sleep | xcomp |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 piled | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 burrows | case |
| 23 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 piled | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 take | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 take | cc |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 live | conj |
| 27 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 take | obj |
| 28 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 turns | acl |
| 29 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 standing | xcomp |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 legs | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 legs | nmod:poss |
| 32 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 legs | amod |
| 33 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 standing | obl |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 lookouts | case |
| 35 | lookouts | lookout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 standing | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | would | a real meerkat | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | meerkats | mobs of 50 | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mob=Location | ||||
| 3 | sleep | present | meerkats not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pile | participle | meerkats not said here | burrows | together property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in burrow=Destination | |||
| 5 | take | present | meerkats not said here | turns | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | turns not said here | turns's back legs | as lookouts; tall property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
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:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs.lesson:1.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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