--- title: A running warthog holds its thin tail straight up, which may help it… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics description: A running warthog holds its thin tail straight up, which may help its young follow it through tall grass, and it can run at about 50 km per hour. Who acts: running warthog, young, warthog. 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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 (running warthog, young, warthog), 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:12 # text = A running warthog holds its thin tail straight up, which may help its young follow it through tall grass, and it can run at about 50 km per hour. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 running running ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 warthog warthog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 straight straight ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 up up ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obj _ _ 16 follow follow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:parataxis 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 per per ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | a running warthog | warthog's thin tail | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 2 | **help** | may | | warthog's young | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent young=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | infinitive | warthog's young *not said here* | warthog | | tall grass | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme through grass=Trajectory | | 4 | **run** | can | warthog | | | 50 km per hour | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory | 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:12`. **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, 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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