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title: The great migration is real: over a million wildebeest, with zebras… — The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle… · tree and pragmatics
description: The great migration is real: over a million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, move round the Serengeti and Masai Mara every year following rain and fresh grass. Who acts: great migration, million wildebeest. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» of t
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# The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 10

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The great migration is real: over a million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, move round the Serengeti and Masai Mara every year following rain and fresh grass.

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**Who acts:** great migration, million wildebeest · **What happens:** be, move, follow · **To what, where:** following rain, Serengeti

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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 (great migration, million wildebeest), 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:10
# text = The great migration is real: over a million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, move round the Serengeti and Masai Mara every year following rain and fresh grass.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	wildebeest	wildebeest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	zebras	zebra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gazelles	gazelle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	round	round	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Serengeti	Serengeti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Masai	Masai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	Mara	Mara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | the great migration |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | present | million wildebeest with zebras and gazelles | following rain and fresh grass |  | the Serengeti and Masai | year |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round serengeti=Trajectory |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:124-the-lion-king-real-lions.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, 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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