Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 10
Meerkats live in big burrows with many tunnels and sleep piled together, because deserts get cold at night.
Who acts: Meerkats, deserts · What happens: live, sleep, pile, get · To what, where: big burrows
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 (Meerkats, deserts), 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 | Meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 burrows | case |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 burrows | amod |
| 5 | burrows | burrows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tunnels | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tunnels | amod |
| 8 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 burrows | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sleep | cc |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 11 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sleep | xcomp |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 piled | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 15 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | nsubj |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | advcl |
| 17 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 get | xcomp |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Meerkats | big burrows with many tunnels | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burrows=Location | ||||
| 2 | sleep | present | Meerkats not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pile | participle | Meerkats not said here | together property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | present | deserts | night | cold property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:10.
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): no change. 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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