Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 7

Real meerkats live in groups of up to about 50 in southern Africa, led by a dominant female who has most of the pups while the others help to raise them.

Who acts: Real meerkats, dominant female, others · What happens: live, lead, have, help, raise · To what, where: groups, most, others

This is a sentence of the lesson «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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 meerkats, dominant female, others), 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	2 meerkats	amod
2	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 groups	case
5	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 50	case
7	up	up	ADP	_	10 50	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 50	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 50	advmod
10	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 groups	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 Africa	case
12	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Africa	amod
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 led	punct
15	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 live	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 female	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 female	det
18	dominant	dominant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 female	amod
19	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 led	obl:agent
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 has	nsubj
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 female	acl:relcl
22	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 has	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 pups	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pups	det
25	pups	pup	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 most	nmod
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 help	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 others	det
28	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 help	nsubj
29	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 has	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 raise	mark
31	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 help	xcomp
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 raise	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	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	live	present	Real meerkats		groups of 50	in southern Africa	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location
2	lead	participle	Real meerkats not said here				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	have	present	a dominant female	most of the pups			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient
4	help	present	the others				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	raise	to-infinitive	the others not said here	others = other			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.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 ×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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