The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 9
Hyenas look like dogs but are more closely related to cats and mongooses; the aardwolf is a small hyena that eats mostly termites.
Who acts: Hyenas, aardwolf, small hyena · What happens: look, be, eat · To what, where: small hyena, termites
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 (Hyenas, aardwolf, small hyena), 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 | Hyenas | hyena | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 dogs | case |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 related | cc |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 related | cop |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 closely | advmod |
| 8 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 9 related | advmod |
| 9 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 look | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 cats | case |
| 11 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 related | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mongooses | cc |
| 13 | mongooses | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cats | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 aardwolf | det |
| 16 | aardwolf | aardwolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hyena | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hyena | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hyena | det |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hyena | amod |
| 20 | hyena | hyena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 eats | nsubj |
| 22 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hyena | acl:relcl |
| 23 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 24 termites | advmod |
| 24 | termites | termite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 eats | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | 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 | look | present | Hyenas | like dogs | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Hyenas not said here | to cats and mongooses; closely, related property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the aardwolf | a small hyena | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | a small hyena | termites | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent termite=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:9.
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 ×2, R5-strong ×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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