Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 2

A real warthog is a wild pig that mostly grazes short grass on its knees and digs up roots, eating insects only now and then, and it runs with its thin tail straight up like a flag.

Who acts: real warthog, wild pig, warthog · What happens: be, graze, dig up, eat, run · To what, where: wild pig, short grass, roots, insects

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 (real warthog, wild pig, 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warthog	amod
3	warthog	warthog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pig	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pig	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pig	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pig	amod
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 grazes	nsubj
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	10 grazes	advmod
10	grazes	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pig	acl:relcl
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grass	amod
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grazes	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 knees	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 knees	nmod:poss
15	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grazes	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 digs	cc
17	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grazes	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 digs	compound:prt
19	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 digs	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eating	punct
21	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 digs	conj
22	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 eating	obj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 now	advmod
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 eating	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 then	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 now	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 runs	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 runs	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 runs	nsubj
30	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grazes	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 tail	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 tail	nmod:poss
33	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tail	amod
34	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 runs	obl
35	straight	straight	ADV	_	36 up	advmod
36	up	up	ADV	_	30 runs	advmod
37	like	like	ADP	_	39 flag	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 flag	det
39	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 runs	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pig	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a real warthog	a wild pig			tree rules
2	graze	present	a wild pig	short grass		on warthog's knees; mostly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent grass=Experiencer on knee=Theme
3	dig up	present	a wild pig not said here	roots			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme
4	eat	gerund	a wild pig not said here	insects	now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient
5	run	present	warthog			with warthog's thin tail; like a flag	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with tail=Material

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:2.

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. 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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