Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 3

Timon and Pumbaa's friendship is not so far from the truth: on the savanna, banded mongooses, close cousins of meerkats, pick ticks off warthogs, and both animals gain.

Who acts: friendship, animals · What happens: not be, pick, gain · To what, where: truth, ticks

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 (friendship, animals), 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	Timon	Timon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 friendship	nmod:poss
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Pumbaa	cc
3	Pumbaa	Pumbaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Timon	conj
4	's	's	PART	_	1 Timon	case
5	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 truth	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 truth	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 truth	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 truth	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 truth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 truth	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 savanna	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 savanna	det
16	savanna	savanna	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mongooses	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mongooses	punct
18	banded	band	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mongooses	amod
19	mongooses	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 truth	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cousins	punct
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cousins	amod
22	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 mongooses	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 meerkats	case
24	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cousins	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ticks	punct
26	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 mongooses	conj
27	ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pick	obj
28	off	off	ADP	_	29 warthogs	case
29	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ticks	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gain	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gain	cc
32	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	33 animals	det
33	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gain	nsubj
34	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 mongooses	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 truth	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Timon and Pumbaa's friendship		the truth	far property	tree rules
2	pick	present	Timon and Pumbaa's friendship not said here	ticks		off warthogs	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient
3	gain	present	both animals				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:3.

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 ×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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