Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 6

Meerkats live in groups called mobs or gangs of up to about 50, and a meerkat alone could not keep watch and feed at the same time.

Who acts: Meerkats, groups, meerkat · What happens: live, call, not keep, feed · To what, where: groups, mobs, watch · Speech: someone speaks here

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, groups, meerkat), 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 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 groups	case
4	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 groups	acl
6	mobs	mob	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 called	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 gangs	cc
8	gangs	gang	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mobs	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 50	case
10	up	up	ADP	_	13 50	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 50	case
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 50	advmod
13	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 gangs	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 keep	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 keep	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 meerkat	det
17	meerkat	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 keep	nsubj
18	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 meerkat	advmod
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 keep	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 keep	advmod
21	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 live	conj
22	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 keep	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 feed	cc
24	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 watch	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 time	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 time	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 live	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	live	present	Meerkats		groups		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location
2	call	participle	groups not said here	mobs or gangs of 50			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not keep	could	a meerkat	watch			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
4	feed	infinitive	a meerkat not said here			time	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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:6.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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