Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 12

A running warthog holds its thin tail straight up, which may help its young follow it through tall grass, and it can run at about 50 km per hour.

Who acts: running warthog, young, warthog · What happens: hold, help, follow, run · To what, where: thin tail, young, warthog, tall grass, 50 km

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 (running warthog, young, warthog), 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 warthog	det
2	running	running	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warthog	amod
3	warthog	warthog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	nsubj
4	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tail	amod
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 up	advmod
9	up	up	ADV	_	4 holds	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 help	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 holds	conj
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 young	nmod:poss
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 help	obj
16	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 help	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 follow	obj
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 grass	case
19	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grass	amod
20	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 follow	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 run	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 run	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 run	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 run	aux
25	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 holds	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 km	case
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 50	advmod
28	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 km	nummod
29	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 run	obl
30	per	per	ADP	_	31 hour	case
31	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 km	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 holds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hold	present	a running warthog	warthog's thin tail		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	help	may		warthog's young		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent young=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	follow	infinitive	warthog's young not said here	warthog	tall grass	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme through grass=Trajectory
4	run	can	warthog		50 km per hour	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory

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:12.

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, 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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