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title: Real Serengeti lions rest on rocky islands called kopjes, which give… — The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real Serengeti lions rest on rocky islands called kopjes, which give shade, a lookout and safe dens, and the film makers went to East Africa to study them. Who acts: Real Serengeti lions, rocky islands, film makers. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» 
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# The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 1

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Real Serengeti lions rest on rocky islands called kopjes, which give shade, a lookout and safe dens, and the film makers went to East Africa to study them.

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**Who acts:** Real Serengeti lions, rocky islands, film makers · **What happens:** rest, call, give, go, study · **To what, where:** rocky islands, kopjes, shade, East, makers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Real Serengeti lions, rocky islands, film makers), 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:1
# text = Real Serengeti lions rest on rocky islands called kopjes, which give shade, a lookout and safe dens, and the film makers went to East Africa to study them.
# 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Serengeti	Serengeti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	kopjes	kopje	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl
13	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lookout	lookout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dens	den	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	makers	maker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	study	study	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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 | **rest** | present | Real Serengeti lions |  |  | rocky islands |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on island=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle | rocky islands *not said here* | kopjes |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | present | rocky islands | shade and a lookout and safe dens |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shade=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | the film makers |  |  | East |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to east=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **study** | to-infinitive | the film makers *not said here* | makers *= maker* |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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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