The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 3
The Lion King opens with every animal bowing on Pride Rock; real herds keep well away from lions, Rafiki's mandrill-like face belongs to a rainforest monkey, and spotted hyenas are not silly scavengers but clever hunters led by females.
Who acts: Lion King, animal, real herds, mandrill like face, spotted hyenas, silly scavengers · What happens: open, bow, keep, belong, spot, not be · To what, where: Pride Rock, silly scavengers
This is a sentence of the lesson «The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds» 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 (Lion King, animal, real herds, mandrill like face), 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 | 3 King | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | compound |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 opens | nsubj |
| 4 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 animal | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 animal | det |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opens | obl |
| 8 | bowing | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 animal | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Rock | case |
| 10 | Pride | pride | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rock | compound |
| 11 | Rock | rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bowing | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 herds | amod |
| 14 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 opens | parataxis |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 away | advmod |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 keep | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 lions | case |
| 19 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 away | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 belongs | punct |
| 21 | Rafiki | Rafiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Rafiki | case |
| 23 | mandrill | mandrill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 face | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 mandrill | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 face | amod |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 belongs | nsubj |
| 27 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 keep | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 monkey | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 monkey | det |
| 30 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 monkey | compound |
| 31 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 belongs | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 led | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 led | cc |
| 34 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 hyenas | amod |
| 35 | hyenas | hyena | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 scavengers | nsubj |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 scavengers | cop |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 scavengers | advmod |
| 38 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 scavengers | amod |
| 39 | scavengers | scavenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 led | nsubj |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 hunters | cc |
| 41 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 hunters | amod |
| 42 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 scavengers | conj |
| 43 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 opens | conj |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 females | case |
| 45 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 led | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | the Lion King | with every animal | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bow | gerund | every animal not said here | Pride Rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | real herds | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | belong | present | Rafiki's mandrill like face | to a rainforest monkey | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 6 | not is a | present | spotted hyenas | silly scavengers but clever hunters | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | lead | participle | silly scavengers but clever hunters | by females | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by female=Destination |
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:004-the-savanna.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5. 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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