Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 16
A warthog's «warts» are thick bumpy pads that protect its face in fights.
Who acts: warts, thick bumpy pads · What happens: be, protect · To what, where: thick bumpy pads, face, fights
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 (warts, thick bumpy pads), 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 | 5 warts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 warthog | case |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 warts | punct |
| 5 | warts | wart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pads | nsubj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 warts | punct |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pads | cop |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pads | amod |
| 9 | bumpy | bumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pads | amod |
| 10 | pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 protect | nsubj |
| 12 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pads | acl:relcl |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 protect | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fights | case |
| 16 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 protect | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a warthog's warts | thick bumpy pads | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | protect | present | thick bumpy pads | warthog's face | fights | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Beneficiary |
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:16.
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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