Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 11

Warthogs are wild pigs that mostly eat grass, roots and bulbs, kneeling on tough pads on their wrists to graze very short grass.

Who acts: Warthogs, wild pigs · What happens: be, eat, kneel, graze · To what, where: wild pigs, grass, tough pads, short grass

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 (Warthogs, wild pigs), 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	Warthogs	warthog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pigs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pigs	cop
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pigs	amod
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 eat	nsubj
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pigs	acl:relcl
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 roots	punct
10	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grass	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bulbs	cc
12	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grass	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kneeling	punct
14	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 eat	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 pads	case
16	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pads	amod
17	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 kneeling	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 wrists	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wrists	nmod:poss
20	wrists	wrist	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pads	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 graze	mark
22	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 kneeling	advcl
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 short	advmod
24	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grass	amod
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 graze	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pigs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Warthogs	wild pigs			tree rules
2	eat	present	wild pigs	grass and roots and bulbs		mostly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
3	kneel	gerund	wild pigs not said here		tough pads on pads's wrists		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pad=Location
4	graze	to-infinitive	wild pigs not said here	short grass			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=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:11.

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, 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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