--- title: Timon and Pumbaa's friendship is not so far from the truth: on the s… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics description: Timon and Pumbaa's friendship is not so far from the truth: on the savanna, banded mongooses, close cousins of meerkats, pick ticks off warthogs, and both animals gain. Who acts: friendship, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» of the biology course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and wa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs/) / 3 # Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 3 Timon and Pumbaa's friendship is not so far from the truth: on the savanna, banded mongooses, close cousins of meerkats, pick ticks off warthogs, and both animals gain. **Who acts:** friendship, animals · **What happens:** not be, pick, gain · **To what, where:** truth, ticks 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 (friendship, animals), 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:3 # text = Timon and Pumbaa's friendship is not so far from the truth: on the savanna, banded mongooses, close cousins of meerkats, pick ticks off warthogs, and both animals gain. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Timon Timon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Pumbaa Pumbaa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 5 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 savanna savanna NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 banded band ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 mongooses mongoose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 appos _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 ticks tick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 off off ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 warthogs warthog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 gain gain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Timon and Pumbaa's friendship | | | the truth | | far *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pick** | present | Timon and Pumbaa's friendship *not said here* | ticks | | | | off warthogs | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient | | 3 | **gain** | present | both animals | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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