The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 12
Mandrills have very long canine teeth, and a wide yawn shows them off as a warning to rivals.
Who acts: Mandrills, wide yawn · What happens: have, show off · To what, where: long canine teeth, mandrill
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 (Mandrills, wide yawn), 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 | Mandrills | mandrill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 teeth | amod |
| 5 | canine | canine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teeth | compound |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shows | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shows | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 yawn | det |
| 10 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 yawn | amod |
| 11 | yawn | yawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shows | nsubj |
| 12 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shows | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 shows | compound:prt |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 warning | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 warning | det |
| 17 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shows | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 rivals | case |
| 19 | rivals | rival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 warning | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | 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 | have | present | Mandrills | long canine teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | show off | present | a wide yawn | mandrill | as a warning to rivals | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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:12.
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): 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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