Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 14
Banded mongooses pick ticks off warthogs lying down; a friendship where both sides gain is called mutualism.
Who acts: Banded mongooses, warthogs, sides · What happens: band, pick off, lie down, gain, call · To what, where: ticks, friendship · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Banded mongooses, warthogs, sides), 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 | Banded | band | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mongooses | amod |
| 2 | mongooses | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pick | nsubj |
| 3 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ticks | tick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pick | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 pick | compound:prt |
| 6 | warthogs | warthog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pick | obl |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 warthogs | acl |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 lying | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 friendship | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 friendship | det |
| 11 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 gain | advmod |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 sides | det |
| 14 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gain | nsubj |
| 15 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 friendship | acl:relcl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pick | parataxis |
| 18 | mutualism | mutualism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | band | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | pick off | present | Banded mongooses | ticks | warthogs obl | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient | |||
| 3 | lie down | gerund | warthogs not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | gain | present | both sides | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | call | present · passive | a friendship | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:14.
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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