--- title: Cubs play constantly, chasing tails and wrestling, and play is pract… — The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle… · tree and pragmatics description: Cubs play constantly, chasing tails and wrestling, and play is practice for hunting; the black tuft on a lion's tail is unique among cats. Who acts: Cubs, play, black tuft. 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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 (Cubs, play, black tuft), 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:11 # text = Cubs play constantly, chasing tails and wrestling, and play is practice for hunting; the black tuft on a lion's tail is unique among cats. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cubs cub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 constantly constantly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 chasing chase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 6 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wrestling wrestling NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tuft tuft NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 unique unique ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 27 among among ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present | Cubs | | | | | constantly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **chase** | gerund | Cubs *not said here* | tails and wrestling | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | play | practice | | | | for hunting | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the black tuft on a lion's tail | | | | | among cats; unique *property* | tree rules | 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:124-the-lion-king-real-lions.lesson:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The Lion King: real lions, prides and…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/10/) - next →: [The Lion King: real lions, prides and…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/)