The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 2

A hyena clan is ruled by females, who are bigger than the males, and the famous «laugh» is a giggle of nerves or excitement, not of fun.

Who acts: females, famous laugh · What happens: rule, be · To what, where: hyena clan, giggle

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 (females, famous laugh), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 clan	det
2	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clan	compound
3	clan	clan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ruled	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ruled	aux:pass
5	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 females	case
7	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ruled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bigger	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 bigger	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bigger	cop
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 females	acl:relcl
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 males	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 males	det
14	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bigger	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 giggle	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 giggle	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 laugh	det
18	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 laugh	amod
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 laugh	punct
20	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 giggle	nsubj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 laugh	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 giggle	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 giggle	det
24	giggle	giggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ruled	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 nerves	case
26	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 giggle	nmod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 excitement	cc
28	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nerves	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fun	punct
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 fun	advmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 fun	case
32	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nerves	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ruled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rule	present · passive	females	a hyena clan		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	present	females		than the males; big property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the famous laugh	a giggle	of nerves or excitement and fun	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:2.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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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