Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 4
But the film mixes up Africa: «Hakuna Matata» is East African Swahili, while real meerkats live in the dry lands of southern Africa.
Who acts: film, real meerkats · What happens: mix up, be, live · To what, where: Africa, East African Swahili, dry lands
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 (film, real meerkats), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 mixes | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 film | det |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mixes | nsubj |
| 4 | mixes | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 mixes | compound:prt |
| 6 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mixes | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 mixes | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 Hakuna | punct |
| 9 | Hakuna | Hakuna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mixes | parataxis |
| 10 | Matata | Matata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Hakuna | flat |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 Swahili | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Swahili | cop |
| 13 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Swahili | compound |
| 14 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Swahili | amod |
| 15 | Swahili | swahili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Hakuna | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 meerkats | amod |
| 19 | meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 live | nsubj |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mixes | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 lands | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lands | det |
| 23 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lands | amod |
| 24 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 live | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Africa | case |
| 26 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Africa | amod |
| 27 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 lands | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mixes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix up | present | the film | Africa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | East African Swahili | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | present | real meerkats | the dry lands of southern Africa | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
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:4.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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