--- title: Banded mongooses pick ticks off warthogs lying down; a friendship wh… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics description: Banded mongooses pick ticks off warthogs lying down; a friendship where both sides gain is called mutualism. Who acts: Banded mongooses, warthogs, sides. 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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 (Banded mongooses, warthogs, sides), 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:14 # text = Banded mongooses pick ticks off warthogs lying down; a friendship where both sides gain is called mutualism. # 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 Banded band VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 mongooses mongoose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 ticks tick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 warthogs warthog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 8 down down ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 13 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gain gain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 18 mutualism mutualism NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **band** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **pick off** | present | Banded mongooses | ticks | | | | warthogs *obl* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient | | 3 | **lie down** | gerund | warthogs *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **gain** | present | both sides | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **call** | present · passive | | a friendship | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:14`. **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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