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title: Warthogs often use old aardvark burrows and back in tail-first, so t… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Warthogs often use old aardvark burrows and back in tail-first, so their tusks face the opening. Who acts: Warthogs, tusks. 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 of every clau
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# Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 13

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Warthogs often use old aardvark burrows and back in tail-first, so their tusks face the opening.

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**Who acts:** Warthogs, tusks · **What happens:** use, face · **To what, where:** old aardvark burrows, opening

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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, tusks), 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:13
# text = Warthogs often use old aardvark burrows and back in tail-first, so their tusks face the opening.
# 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	Warthogs	warthog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	aardvark	aardvark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	burrows	burrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Warthogs | old aardvark burrows and tail |  |  |  | first, often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burrow=Patient |
| 2 | **face** | present | burrows's tusks | the opening |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme opening=Destination |

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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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**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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