The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 1

Real spotted hyenas are skilled hunters that run down zebras and wildebeest, and in some places lions steal from hyenas more often than hyenas steal from lions.

Who acts: spotted hyenas, skilled hunters, lions, hyenas · What happens: spot, be, run down, steal · To what, where: skilled hunters, zebras, places

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills» 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 (spotted hyenas, skilled hunters, lions, hyenas), 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	Real	real	ADV	_	2 spotted	advmod
2	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hyenas	amod
3	hyenas	hyena	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hunters	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hunters	cop
5	skilled	skilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hunters	amod
6	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 run	nsubj
8	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hunters	acl:relcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 run	compound:prt
10	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 run	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wildebeest	cc
12	wildebeest	wildebeest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 zebras	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 steal	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 steal	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 places	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 places	det
17	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 steal	obl
18	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 steal	nsubj
19	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hunters	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 hyenas	case
21	hyenas	hyena	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 steal	obl
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 often	advmod
23	often	often	ADV	_	19 steal	advmod
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 steal	mark
25	hyenas	hyena	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 steal	nsubj
26	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 often	advcl
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 lions	case
28	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 steal	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hunters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spot	participle				real property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	is a	present	spotted hyenas	skilled hunters			tree rules
3	run down	present	skilled hunters	zebras and wildebeest			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zebra=Agent
4	steal	present	lions		some places	from hyenas; often property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
5	steal	present	hyenas			from lions	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:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu.lesson:1.

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 ×2, 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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