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title: A pride is a family of related lionesses, mothers, sisters, daughter… — The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle… · tree and pragmatics
description: A pride is a family of related lionesses, mothers, sisters, daughters and aunts, who hunt as a team and share the care of all the cubs, while the males guard the land and hunt big prey too. Who acts: pride, related lionesses, males, cubs. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: real lions, prides a
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# The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 2

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A pride is a family of related lionesses, mothers, sisters, daughters and aunts, who hunt as a team and share the care of all the cubs, while the males guard the land and hunt big prey too.

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**Who acts:** pride, related lionesses, males, cubs · **What happens:** be, hunt, share, guard, care · **To what, where:** family, care, land, big prey

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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 (pride, related lionesses, males, cubs), 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:2
# text = A pride is a family of related lionesses, mothers, sisters, daughters and aunts, who hunt as a team and share the care of all the cubs, while the males guard the land and hunt big prey too.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lionesses	lioness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	aunts	aunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	guard	guard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:det
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
40	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	too	too	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a pride | a family |  |  |  | of related lionesses and mothers and sisters and daughters and aunts | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | related lionesses and mothers and sisters and daughters and aunts |  |  |  |  | as a team | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **share** | present | related lionesses and mothers and sisters and daughters and aunts *not said here* | the care of all cubs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **guard** | present | the males | the land |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **hunt** | present | the males *not said here* | big prey |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme |
| 6 | **care** |  | all cubs |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:2`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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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