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title: A warthog's «warts» are thick bumpy pads that protect its face in fi… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics
description: A warthog's «warts» are thick bumpy pads that protect its face in fights. Who acts: warts, thick bumpy pads. 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 clause.
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# Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 16

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A warthog's «warts» are thick bumpy pads that protect its face in fights.

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**Who acts:** warts, thick bumpy pads · **What happens:** be, protect · **To what, where:** thick bumpy pads, face, fights

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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 (warts, thick bumpy pads), 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:16
# text = A warthog's «warts» are thick bumpy pads that protect its face in fights.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	warthog	warthog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	warts	wart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a warthog's warts | thick bumpy pads |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **protect** | present | thick bumpy pads | warthog's face |  | fights |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Beneficiary |

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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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**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:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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