Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 5

Meerkats stand up tall on their back legs as lookouts for hawks and jackals, using the tail as a prop; the guard gives a quiet «all is well» call and a sharp alarm when danger appears.

Who acts: Meerkats, guard, all, danger · What happens: stand up, use, give, be, appear · To what, where: back legs, tail, quiet call

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 (Meerkats, guard, all, danger), 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	Meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stand	nsubj
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 stand	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stand	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 legs	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
7	back	back	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 legs	amod
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stand	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 lookouts	case
10	lookouts	lookout	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stand	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 hawks	case
12	hawks	hawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lookouts	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 jackals	cc
14	jackals	jackal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hawks	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 using	punct
16	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stand	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tail	det
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 using	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 prop	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 prop	det
21	prop	prop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 using	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 gives	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 guard	det
24	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gives	nsubj
25	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stand	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 call	det
27	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 call	amod
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 call	punct
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 well	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 well	cop
31	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 call	acl
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 well	punct
33	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gives	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 alarm	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 alarm	det
36	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 alarm	amod
37	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 call	conj
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 appears	advmod
39	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 appears	nsubj
40	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 alarm	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stand	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand up	present	Meerkats		lands's back legs	as lookouts for hawks and jackals; tall property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
2	use	gerund	Meerkats not said here	the tail		as a prop	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tail=Duration as prop=Attribute
3	give	present	the guard	a quiet call and a sharp alarm			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	all	a quiet call and a sharp alarm not said here		well property	tree rules
5	appear	present	danger				vn appear-48.1.1 «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:5.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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