Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 7
Meerkats are a kind of mongoose, not a kind of rat or squirrel.
Who acts: Meerkats · What happens: be · To what, where: kind
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), 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 | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mongoose | case |
| 6 | mongoose | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kind | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 kind | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kind | det |
| 10 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rat | case |
| 12 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kind | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 squirrel | cc |
| 14 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rat | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Meerkats | a kind and a kind of rat or squirrel | of mongoose | tree rules |
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:7.
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): no change. 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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