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title: But there is no elephant graveyard, and lions are not kings of a hap… — The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle… · tree and pragmatics
description: But there is no elephant graveyard, and lions are not kings of a happy kingdom: about 20,000 to 25,000 wild lions are left, fewer than half of cubs live to two, and they rest up to 20 hours a day. Who acts: elephant graveyard, lions, half. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: real lions, prides 
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# The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 4

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But there is no elephant graveyard, and lions are not kings of a happy kingdom: about 20,000 to 25,000 wild lions are left, fewer than half of cubs live to two, and they rest up to 20 hours a day.

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**Who acts:** elephant graveyard, lions, half · **What happens:** be, not be, leave, live, rest up · **To what, where:** kings, 25,000 wild lions

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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 (elephant graveyard, lions, half), 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:4
# text = But there is no elephant graveyard, and lions are not kings of a happy kingdom: about 20,000 to 25,000 wild lions are left, fewer than half of cubs live to two, and they rest up to 20 hours a day.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
21	25,000	25000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
27	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:amod
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	32	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:unmarked	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32: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 | **does** | present | no elephant graveyard  20,000 and kings |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | lions | kings |  |  |  | of a happy kingdom | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | present · passive |  | 25,000 wild lions |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | present | half of cubs |  |  |  |  | to two | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rest up** | present | lions *= lion* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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