The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 4
Real red-billed hornbills hop about the savanna for insects and seeds, team up with dwarf mongooses, and the mother seals herself into a tree hole with mud to keep her chicks safe.
Who acts: Real billed hornbills, mother · What happens: bill, hop, team up, seal, keep · To what, where: mother, tree hole, chicks
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 (Real billed hornbills, mother), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hornbills | amod |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 billed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 red | punct |
| 4 | billed | bill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hornbills | amod |
| 5 | hornbills | hornbill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hop | nsubj |
| 6 | hop | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 savanna | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 savanna | det |
| 9 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hop | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 insects | case |
| 11 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 savanna | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seeds | cc |
| 13 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 insects | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 team | punct |
| 15 | team | team | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hop | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 team | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 mongooses | case |
| 18 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mongooses | amod |
| 19 | mongooses | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 team | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seals | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seals | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mother | det |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seals | nsubj |
| 24 | seals | seal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hop | conj |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 seals | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 hole | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hole | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hole | compound |
| 29 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seals | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 mud | case |
| 31 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hole | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 keep | mark |
| 33 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hole | acl |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 chicks | nmod:poss |
| 35 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 keep | obj |
| 36 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 keep | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bill | participle | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hop | present | Real billed hornbills | about the savanna for insects and seeds | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about savanna=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | team up | present | Real billed hornbills not said here | with dwarf mongooses | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mongoose=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | seal | present | the mother | mother | a tree hole with mud | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 5 | keep | to-infinitive | the mother not said here | mother's chicks | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=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:4.
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): no change. 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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