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title: Lions sleep or rest up to 20 hours a day and are most active at nigh… — The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lions sleep or rest up to 20 hours a day and are most active at night and dawn; one lion can eat about 40 kilograms of meat in a meal and then may not eat again for several days. Who acts: Lions, one lion. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» of the bio
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# The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 9

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Lions sleep or rest up to 20 hours a day and are most active at night and dawn; one lion can eat about 40 kilograms of meat in a meal and then may not eat again for several days.

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**Who acts:** Lions, one lion · **What happens:** sleep, rest up, be, eat, not eat · **To what, where:** 40 kilograms, meal

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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 (Lions, one lion), 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:9
# text = Lions sleep or rest up to 20 hours a day and are most active at night and dawn; one lion can eat about 40 kilograms of meat in a meal and then may not eat again for several days.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
25	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **sleep** | present | Lions |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest up** | present | Lions *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Lions *not said here* |  |  |  | night | active *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | can | one lion | 40 kilograms of meat |  | a meal |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **eat** | may | one lion *not said here* |  |  |  | then; again; day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9`.

**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, 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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