The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 5

Spotted hyenas are skilled hunters that catch most of their own food in many places, and in the Ngorongoro Crater lions ate hyena kills more often than the other way round.

Who acts: Spotted hyenas, skilled hunters, Ngorongoro Crater lions · What happens: spot, be, catch, eat · To what, where: skilled hunters, most, many places

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 (Spotted hyenas, skilled hunters, Ngorongoro Crater lions), 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	Spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hyenas	amod
2	hyenas	hyena	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunters	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hunters	cop
4	skilled	skilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hunters	amod
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 catch	nsubj
7	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hunters	acl:relcl
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 catch	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 food	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 food	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 food	amod
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 most	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 places	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 places	amod
15	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 catch	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lions	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lions	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 lions	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lions	det
20	Ngorongoro	Ngorongoro	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 lions	compound
21	Crater	crater	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 lions	compound
22	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ate	nsubj
23	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunters	conj
24	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kills	compound
25	kills	kill	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ate	conj
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 often	advmod
27	often	often	ADV	_	31 way	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 way	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 way	amod
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kills	nmod
32	round	round	ADV	_	31 way	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hunters	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spot	participle				vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	is a	present	Spotted hyenas	skilled hunters		tree rules
3	catch	present	skilled hunters	most of hyenas's own food	many places	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme
4	eat	past	the Ngorongoro Crater lions			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:5.

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 ×2, 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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