The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 4
In The Lion King, Zazu is a red-billed hornbill; real hornbills do not talk or serve kings, but the beak and the African savanna are true to life.
Who acts: Zazu, real hornbills, beak · What happens: bill, be, not talk, serve · To what, where: red billed hornbill, kings
This is a sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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 (Zazu, real hornbills, beak), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 King | case |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | compound |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hornbill | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
| 6 | Zazu | Zazu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hornbill | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hornbill | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hornbill | det |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hornbill | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 red | punct |
| 11 | billed | bill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hornbill | amod |
| 12 | hornbill | hornbill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 talk | punct |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hornbills | amod |
| 15 | hornbills | hornbill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 talk | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 talk | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 talk | advmod |
| 18 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hornbill | parataxis |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 serve | cc |
| 20 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 talk | conj |
| 21 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 serve | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 true | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 true | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beak | det |
| 25 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 true | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 savanna | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 savanna | det |
| 28 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 savanna | amod |
| 29 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beak | conj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 true | cop |
| 31 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hornbill | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 life | case |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 true | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hornbill | 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 | bill | participle | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Zazu | a red billed hornbill | in the Lion King | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not talk | present · do-support | real hornbills | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | serve | infinitive | real hornbills not said here | kings | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the beak and the African savanna | to life; true property | 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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:4.
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): no change. 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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