The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 7

In spotted hyena clans the females are in charge and are bigger and stronger than the males; a clan can have up to about 80 members.

Who acts: females, clan · What happens: be, have up · To what, where: spotted hyena clans, charge, 80 members

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, clan), 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	_	4 clans	case
2	spotted	spot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clans	amod
3	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clans	compound
4	clans	clan	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 females	det
6	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 charge	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 charge	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 charge	case
9	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clans	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bigger	cc
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bigger	cop
12	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 charge	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stronger	cc
14	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 bigger	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 males	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 males	det
17	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bigger	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 clans	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 clan	det
20	clan	clan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 have	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 members	case
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 80	advmod
26	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 members	nummod
27	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the females	spotted hyena clans not said here	charge		tree rules
2	is	present	the females not said here			than the males; big property	tree rules
3	be		the females not said here				tree rules
4	have up	can	a clan	80 members	spotted hyena clans		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=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:7.

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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