The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars, sentence 8
Lions do not live in jungles but in African savanna, grassland and open woodland, and in the Gir Forest, a dry forest in India; king of the beasts is the better old name.
Who acts: Lions, king · What happens: not live, be · To what, where: jungles, better old name
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 (Lions, king), 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 | Lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 jungles | case |
| 6 | jungles | jungle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 savanna | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 savanna | case |
| 9 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 savanna | amod |
| 10 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jungles | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grassland | punct |
| 12 | grassland | grassland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 savanna | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 woodland | cc |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woodland | amod |
| 15 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 savanna | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Forest | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Forest | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Forest | det |
| 20 | Gir | Gir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Forest | compound |
| 21 | Forest | Forest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 savanna | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 forest | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 24 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 forest | amod |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Forest | appos |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 India | case |
| 27 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 forest | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 savanna | punct |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 name | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 beasts | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 beasts | det |
| 32 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 king | nmod |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 name | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 name | det |
| 35 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 name | amod |
| 36 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 name | amod |
| 37 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | 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 | not live | present · do-support | Lions | jungles but African savanna and grassland and open woodland and the Gir Forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | king of the beasts | the better old name | tree rules |
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:8.
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): 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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