--- title: Meerkats live in big burrows with many tunnels and sleep piled toget… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics description: Meerkats live in big burrows with many tunnels and sleep piled together, because deserts get cold at night. Who acts: Meerkats, deserts. A sentence of the lesson «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and wa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs/) / 10 # Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 10 Meerkats live in big burrows with many tunnels and sleep piled together, because deserts get cold at night. **Who acts:** Meerkats, deserts · **What happens:** live, sleep, pile, get · **To what, where:** big burrows This is a sentence of the lesson «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» 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 (Meerkats, deserts), 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:10 # text = Meerkats live in big burrows with many tunnels and sleep piled together, because deserts get cold at night. # 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): no change 1 Meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 burrows burrows NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 piled pile VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 xcomp _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 17 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Meerkats | | | big burrows with many tunnels | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burrows=Location | | 2 | **sleep** | present | Meerkats *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pile** | participle | Meerkats *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | present | deserts | | | | night | cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:10`. **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): no change. **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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