--- title: Meerkats live in groups called mobs or gangs of up to about 50, and… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics description: Meerkats live in groups called mobs or gangs of up to about 50, and a meerkat alone could not keep watch and feed at the same time. Who acts: Meerkats, groups, meerkat. A sentence of the lesson «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 6 Meerkats live in groups called mobs or gangs of up to about 50, and a meerkat alone could not keep watch and feed at the same time. **Who acts:** Meerkats, groups, meerkat · **What happens:** live, call, not keep, feed · **To what, where:** groups, mobs, watch · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Meerkats, groups, meerkat), 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:6 # text = Meerkats live in groups called mobs or gangs of up to about 50, and a meerkat alone could not keep watch and feed at the same time. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 mobs mob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 gangs gang NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 up up ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 meerkat meerkat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 alone alone ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 22 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 24 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **live** | present | Meerkats | | | groups | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | | 2 | **call** | participle | groups *not said here* | mobs or gangs of 50 | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **keep** | could | a meerkat | watch | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | infinitive | a meerkat *not said here* | | | | time | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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