--- title: A real warthog is a wild pig that mostly grazes short grass on its k… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics description: A real warthog is a wild pig that mostly grazes short grass on its knees and digs up roots, eating insects only now and then, and it runs with its thin tail straight up like a flag. Who acts: real warthog, wild pig, 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 (real warthog, wild pig, 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:2 # text = A real warthog is a wild pig that mostly grazes short grass on its knees and digs up roots, eating insects only now and then, and it runs with its thin tail straight up like a flag. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 warthog warthog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 grazes graze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 conj _ _ 22 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 straight straight ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 up up ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obl 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a real warthog | a wild pig | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **graze** | present | a wild pig | short grass | | | | on warthog's knees; mostly *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent grass=Experiencer on knee=Theme | | 3 | **dig up** | present | a wild pig *not said here* | roots | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | a wild pig *not said here* | insects | | | now | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient | | 5 | **run** | present | warthog | | | | | with warthog's thin tail; like a flag | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with tail=Material | 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. 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