--- title: Meerkats stand up tall on their back legs as lookouts for hawks and… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics description: Meerkats stand up tall on their back legs as lookouts for hawks and jackals, using the tail as a prop; the guard gives a quiet «all is well» call and a sharp alarm when danger appears. Who acts: Meerkats, guard, all, danger. 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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 (Meerkats, guard, all, danger), 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:5 # text = Meerkats stand up tall on their back legs as lookouts for hawks and jackals, using the tail as a prop; the guard gives a quiet «all is well» call and a sharp alarm when danger appears. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 lookouts lookout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 hawks hawk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 jackals jackal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 prop prop NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 27 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 well well ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 acl _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 33 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 40 advmod _ _ 39 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand up** | present | Meerkats | | | lands's back legs | | as lookouts for hawks and jackals; tall *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | | 2 | **use** | gerund | Meerkats *not said here* | the tail | | | | as a prop | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tail=Duration as prop=Attribute | | 3 | **give** | present | the guard | a quiet call and a sharp alarm | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | all | a quiet call and a sharp alarm *not said here* | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **appear** | present | danger | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:5`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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