The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 13

Red-billed hornbills live in dry African savannas, eating insects, seeds and small animals on the ground; the big bill is light because it is hollow inside.

Who acts: billed hornbills, big bill, bill · What happens: bill, live, eat, be · To what, where: dry African savannas

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 (billed hornbills, big bill, bill), 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	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 billed	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Red	punct
3	billed	bill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hornbills	amod
4	hornbills	hornbill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 savannas	case
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 savannas	amod
8	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 savannas	amod
9	savannas	savanna	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 insects	punct
11	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 insects	amod
12	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 savannas	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seeds	punct
14	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 insects	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 animals	cc
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animals	amod
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 savannas	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 animals	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 light	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bill	det
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bill	amod
24	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 light	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 light	cop
26	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 live	parataxis
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 hollow	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hollow	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 hollow	cop
30	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 light	advcl
31	inside	inside	ADV	_	30 hollow	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	bill	participle				vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	live	present	billed hornbills	dry African savannas and eating insects and seeds and small animals on the ground		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in savanna=Location
3	eat	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the big bill		light property	tree rules
5	is	present	bill		hollow, inside property	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:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu.lesson:13.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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