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title: In The Lion King, Simba stands on Pride Rock, Mufasa roars across th… — The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle… · tree and pragmatics
description: In The Lion King, Simba stands on Pride Rock, Mufasa roars across the plain, and the lionesses go hunting; much of this is truer than you might think. Who acts: Simba, Mufasa, lionesses, much. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» of the biology course o
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# The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 0

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In The Lion King, Simba stands on Pride Rock, Mufasa roars across the plain, and the lionesses go hunting; much of this is truer than you might think.

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**Who acts:** Simba, Mufasa, lionesses, much, you · **What happens:** stand, roar, go, hunt, be, think · **To what, where:** Pride Rock, plain

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» 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 (Simba, Mufasa, lionesses, much), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:124-the-lion-king-real-lions.lesson:0
# text = In The Lion King, Simba stands on Pride Rock, Mufasa roars across the plain, and the lionesses go hunting; much of this is truer than you might think.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 124-the-lion-king-real-lions.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Simba	Simba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Pride	pride	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	Rock	rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Mufasa	Mufasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	roars	roar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	across	across	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lionesses	lioness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nmod	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	truer	true	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
29	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | Simba |  |  | Pride Rock |  | in the Lion King | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in king=Location |
| 2 | **roar** | present | Mufasa |  |  | the plain |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go** | present | the lionesses |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hunt** | gerund | the lionesses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | much of this |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | might | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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