Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 9
The dark fur round a meerkat's eyes cuts down glare from the bright desert sun, and meerkats can close their ears when they dig.
Who acts: dark fur, meerkats, ears · What happens: cut down, close, dig · To what, where: glare, bright desert sun, ears
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 (dark fur, meerkats, ears), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fur | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fur | amod |
| 3 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cuts | nsubj |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 meerkat | det |
| 6 | meerkat | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 meerkat | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fur | nmod |
| 9 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 cuts | compound:prt |
| 11 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cuts | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 sun | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sun | amod |
| 15 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sun | compound |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glare | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 close | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 close | cc |
| 19 | meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 close | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 close | aux |
| 21 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cuts | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ears | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 close | obj |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 dig | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dig | nsubj |
| 26 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 close | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cuts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut down | present | the dark fur round a meerkat's eyes | glare | the bright desert sun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset glare=Product from sun=Material | |||
| 2 | close | can | meerkats | eyes's ears | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dig | present | ears = ear | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: 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:9.
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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