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title: But the film mixes up Africa: «Hakuna Matata» is East African Swahil… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics
description: But the film mixes up Africa: «Hakuna Matata» is East African Swahili, while real meerkats live in the dry lands of southern Africa. Who acts: film, real meerkats. A sentence of the lesson «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 4

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But the film mixes up Africa: «Hakuna Matata» is East African Swahili, while real meerkats live in the dry lands of southern Africa.

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**Who acts:** film, real meerkats · **What happens:** mix up, be, live · **To what, where:** Africa, East African Swahili, dry lands

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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 (film, real meerkats), 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:4
# text = But the film mixes up Africa: «Hakuna Matata» is East African Swahili, while real meerkats live in the dry lands of southern Africa.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mixes	mix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
9	Hakuna	Hakuna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
10	Matata	Matata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Swahili	swahili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **mix up** | present | the film | Africa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | East African Swahili |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | real meerkats |  |  | the dry lands of southern Africa |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |

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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:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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

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