Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 15

A warthog has two pairs of tusks: big curved upper ones and short, razor-sharp lower ones that rub against the upper ones and stay sharp.

Who acts: warthog, razor sharp lower ones · What happens: have, curve, rub, stay · To what, where: two pairs

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 (warthog, razor sharp lower ones), 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	2 warthog	det
2	warthog	warthog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pairs	nummod
5	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 tusks	case
7	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pairs	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 ones	punct
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
10	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ones	amod
11	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pairs	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 short	cc
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ones	punct
16	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ones	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 razor	punct
18	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ones	amod
19	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 ones	amod
20	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ones	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 rub	nsubj
22	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ones	acl:relcl
23	against	against	ADP	_	26 ones	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ones	det
25	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ones	amod
26	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rub	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stay	cc
28	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 rub	conj
29	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stay	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a warthog	two pairs of tusks		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
2	curve	participle				vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
3	rub	present	razor sharp lower ones		against the upper ones	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against one=Destination
4	stay	present	razor sharp lower ones not said here		sharp property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:15.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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