--- title: Next door the meerkats run a lookout: one stands on a rock on its ba… — The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostr… · tree and pragmatics description: Next door the meerkats run a lookout: one stands on a rock on its back legs while the others dig for beetles and scorpions, and if an eagle comes the guard gives a special call and everyone dives into the burrow. Who acts: meerkats, one, others, eagle. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meerkats, one, others, eagle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:2 # text = Next door the meerkats run a lookout: one stands on a rock on its back legs while the others dig for beetles and scorpions, and if an eagle comes the guard gives a special call and everyone dives into the burrow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lookout lookout NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:::_ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 40 nsubj _ _ 40 dives dive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 41 into into ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 burrow burrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **run** | present | the meerkats | Next door | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lookout=Trajectory | | 2 | **stand** | present | one | | | a rock on hippo's back legs | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | | 3 | **dig** | present | the others | | | | | for beetles and scorpions | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for beetle=Theme | | 4 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a eagle | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **give** | present | the guard | a special call | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | | 6 | **dive** | present | everyone | | | the burrow | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into burrow=Location | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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