--- title: Warthogs are wild pigs that mostly eat grass, roots and bulbs, kneel… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics description: Warthogs are wild pigs that mostly eat grass, roots and bulbs, kneeling on tough pads on their wrists to graze very short grass. Who acts: Warthogs, wild pigs. A sentence of the lesson «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 11 Warthogs are wild pigs that mostly eat grass, roots and bulbs, kneeling on tough pads on their wrists to graze very short grass. **Who acts:** Warthogs, wild pigs · **What happens:** be, eat, kneel, graze · **To what, where:** wild pigs, grass, tough pads, short grass 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 (Warthogs, wild pigs), 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:11 # text = Warthogs are wild pigs that mostly eat grass, roots and bulbs, kneeling on tough pads on their wrists to graze very short grass. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Warthogs warthog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 bulbs bulb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 kneeling kneel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 wrists wrist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 graze graze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Warthogs | wild pigs | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | wild pigs | grass and roots and bulbs | | | | mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | | 3 | **kneel** | gerund | wild pigs *not said here* | | | tough pads on pads's wrists | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pad=Location | | 4 | **graze** | to-infinitive | wild pigs *not said here* | short grass | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=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:11`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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