The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 15
In Kenya, hornbills and dwarf mongooses team up: the birds catch insects the mongooses disturb and call out warnings of hawks.
Who acts: hornbills, birds, mongooses · What happens: team up, catch, disturb, call out, warn · To what, where: Kenya, insects, warnings, hawks
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 (hornbills, birds, mongooses), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Kenya | case |
| 2 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 team | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 team | punct |
| 4 | hornbills | hornbill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 team | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mongooses | cc |
| 6 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mongooses | amod |
| 7 | mongooses | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hornbills | conj |
| 8 | team | team | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 team | compound:prt |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 team | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 birds | det |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 catch | nsubj |
| 13 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 team | parataxis |
| 14 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 catch | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mongooses | det |
| 16 | mongooses | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 disturb | nsubj |
| 17 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 insects | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 call | cc |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 disturb | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 call | compound:prt |
| 21 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 call | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hawks | case |
| 23 | hawks | hawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 warnings | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 team | 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 | team up | present | hornbills and dwarf mongooses | Kenya | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | catch | present | the birds | insects | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | ||||
| 3 | disturb | infinitive | the mongooses | insects not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus insect=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | present | the mongooses not said here | warnings of hawks | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent warning=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | warn | hawks | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:15.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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