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title: The circle of life matches real science: energy passes from grass to… — The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle… · tree and pragmatics
description: The circle of life matches real science: energy passes from grass to antelopes to lions, and decomposers return dead bodies to the soil. Who acts: circle, energy, decomposers. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» of the biology course of Mova's primary 
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# The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 15

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The circle of life matches real science: energy passes from grass to antelopes to lions, and decomposers return dead bodies to the soil.

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**Who acts:** circle, energy, decomposers · **What happens:** match, pass, return · **To what, where:** real science, antelopes, grass, dead bodies, soil

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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 (circle, energy, decomposers), 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:15
# text = The circle of life matches real science: energy passes from grass to antelopes to lions, and decomposers return dead bodies to the soil.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	matches	match	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	decomposers	decomposer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **match** | present | the circle of life | real science |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent science=Patient |
| 2 | **pass** | present | energy |  | antelopes to lions | grass |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from grass=Initial\_Location to antelope=Destination |
| 3 | **return** | present | decomposers | dead bodies |  | the soil |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to soil=Destination |

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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:15`.

**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): no change. **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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