The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars, sentence 3

Real lion life is less royal and more teamwork: lionesses do most of the hunting together, the males guard the land, and everyone sleeps up to about 20 hours a day.

Who acts: Real lion life, lionesses, males, everyone · What happens: be, do, guard, sleep · To what, where: most, land

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: who acts (Real lion life, lionesses, males, everyone), 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	3 life	amod
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 life	compound
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 royal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 royal	cop
5	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 royal	advmod
6	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 teamwork	cc
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 teamwork	amod
9	teamwork	teamwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 royal	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
11	lionesses	lioness	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 royal	parataxis
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 do	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hunting	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hunting	det
16	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 most	nmod
17	together	together	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 guard	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 males	det
20	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 guard	nsubj
21	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 do	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 land	det
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 guard	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sleeps	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sleeps	cc
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 sleeps	nsubj
27	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 do	conj
28	up	up	ADV	_	32 hours	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 hours	case
30	about	about	ADV	_	31 20	advmod
31	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 hours	nummod
32	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sleeps	obl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 day	det
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hours	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 royal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Real lion life			less, royal property	tree rules
2	do	present	lionesses	most of the hunting		together property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality
3	guard	present	the males	the land			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary
4	sleep	present	everyone		hour		vn snooze-40.4-1 «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:018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.lesson:3.

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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