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title: Young males like Simba really do leave home at two or three years ol… — The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle… · tree and pragmatics
description: Young males like Simba really do leave home at two or three years old, and Mufasa's circle of life is real science: lions eat antelopes, antelopes eat grass, and dead lions feed the soil that grows the grass. Who acts: Young males, circle, lions, antelopes. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: r
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# The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 3

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Young males like Simba really do leave home at two or three years old, and Mufasa's circle of life is real science: lions eat antelopes, antelopes eat grass, and dead lions feed the soil that grows the grass.

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**Who acts:** Young males, circle, lions, antelopes, dead lions, soil · **What happens:** leave, be, eat, feed, grow · **To what, where:** real science, antelopes, grass, 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 (Young males, circle, lions, antelopes), 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:3
# text = Young males like Simba really do leave home at two or three years old, and Mufasa's circle of life is real science: lions eat antelopes, antelopes eat grass, and dead lions feed the soil that grows the 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Simba	Simba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	Mufasa	Mufasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
26	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
28	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **leave** | present · do-support | Young males like Simba |  |  |  | year | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Mufasa's circle of life | real science |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | present | lions | antelopes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antelope=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | present | antelopes | grass |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
| 5 | **feed** | present | dead lions | the soil |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Recipient |
| 6 | **grow** | present | the soil | the grass |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grass=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:3`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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