Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 13
Warthogs often use old aardvark burrows and back in tail-first, so their tusks face the opening.
Who acts: Warthogs, tusks · What happens: use, face · To what, where: old aardvark burrows, opening
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, tusks), 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 | 3 use | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 use | advmod |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 burrows | amod |
| 5 | aardvark | aardvark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burrows | compound |
| 6 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tail | cc |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 tail | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tail | case |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burrows | conj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 first | punct |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 use | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 face | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 face | advmod |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 face | nsubj |
| 17 | face | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 opening | det |
| 19 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 face | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Warthogs | old aardvark burrows and tail | first, often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burrow=Patient | |||
| 2 | face | present | burrows's tusks | the opening | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme opening=Destination |
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:13.
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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