The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars, sentence 11
The lion is on many coats of arms and flags, like England's three lions, Scotland's red lion and Sri Lanka's flag, as a symbol of courage and strength; King Richard I was called the Lionheart for his bravery.
What happens: be, call · To what, where: many coats, King Richard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars» 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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 coats | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 coats | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coats | amod |
| 6 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lion | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 arms | case |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 coats | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flags | cc |
| 10 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arms | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lions | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 lions | case |
| 13 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lions | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 England | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 lions | nummod |
| 16 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lion | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lion | punct |
| 18 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lion | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Scotland | case |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lion | amod |
| 21 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lions | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flag | cc |
| 23 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 flag | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sri | flat |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Sri | case |
| 26 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lion | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 symbol | punct |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 symbol | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 symbol | det |
| 30 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lion | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 courage | case |
| 32 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 symbol | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 strength | cc |
| 34 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 courage | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 Richard | punct |
| 36 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Richard | compound |
| 37 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 called | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | I | I | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Richard | flat |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 called | aux:pass |
| 40 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lion | parataxis |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Lionheart | det |
| 42 | Lionheart | Lionheart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 called | xcomp |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 bravery | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 bravery | nmod:poss |
| 45 | bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 called | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lion | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many coats | of arms and flags | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | King Richard | for lion's bravery | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for bravery=Beneficiary |
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:018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.lesson:11.
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. 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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