--- title: A real meerkat would never live alone: meerkats live in mobs of up t… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics description: A real meerkat would never live alone: meerkats live in mobs of up to about 50, sleep piled together in burrows, and take turns standing tall on their back legs as lookouts. Who acts: real meerkat, meerkats, turns. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real meerkat, meerkats, turns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs.lesson:1 # text = A real meerkat would never live alone: meerkats live in mobs of up to about 50, sleep piled together in burrows, and take turns standing tall on their back legs as lookouts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 meerkat meerkat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 alone alone ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 mobs mob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 up up ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 piled pile VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 xcomp _ _ 21 together together ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 burrows burrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 27 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 acl _ _ 29 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 34 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 lookouts lookout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **live** | would | a real meerkat | | | | | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | present | meerkats | | | mobs of 50 | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mob=Location | | 3 | **sleep** | present | meerkats *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pile** | participle | meerkats *not said here* | | | burrows | | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in burrow=Destination | | 5 | **take** | present | meerkats *not said here* | turns | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | | 6 | **stand** | gerund | turns *not said here* | | | turns's back legs | | as lookouts; tall *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | 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. **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:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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