--- title: Timon the meerkat and the giggling hyenas of The Lion King, and Glor… — The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostr… · tree and pragmatics description: Timon the meerkat and the giggling hyenas of The Lion King, and Gloria the hippo of Madagascar, are fun, but the real animals are cleverer and stranger than their cartoon copies. Who acts: Timon, real animals, meerkats. 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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 (Timon, real animals, meerkats), 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:3 # text = Timon the meerkat and the giggling hyenas of The Lion King, and Gloria the hippo of Madagascar, are fun, but the real animals are cleverer and stranger than their cartoon copies. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Timon Timon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 meerkat meerkat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 giggling giggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 hyenas hyena NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Gloria Gloria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hippo hippo NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=21:punct 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 cleverer clever ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 stranger strange ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 conj _ _ 31 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 copies copy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 35 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **giggle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Timon and the giggling hyenas of the Lion King and Gloria | | | | | fun *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the real animals | | | | | than meerkats's cartoon copies; clever *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | the real animals *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **copy** | | meerkats *= meerkat* | | | | | | nom copy «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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