--- title: Lions in a few places, such as parts of Uganda and Tanzania, often c… — The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle… · tree and pragmatics description: Lions in a few places, such as parts of Uganda and Tanzania, often climb trees, and scientists are not sure why they do it there and hardly anywhere else. Who acts: Lions, scientists. 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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 (Lions, scientists), 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:14 # text = Lions in a few places, such as parts of Uganda and Tanzania, often climb trees, and scientists are not sure why they do it there and hardly anywhere else. # 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 1 Lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Uganda Uganda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 Tanzania Tanzania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 24 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 28 conj _ _ 32 else else ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | present | Lions in a few places and parts of Uganda and Tanzania | trees | | | | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | scientists | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | present | lions *= lion* | milk | | there | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:14`. **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. **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…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/13/) - next →: [The Lion King: real lions, prides and…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/)