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title: Meerkats are a kind of mongoose, not a kind of rat or squirrel. — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Meerkats are a kind of mongoose, not a kind of rat or squirrel. Who acts: Meerkats. A sentence of the lesson «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 7

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Meerkats are a kind of mongoose, not a kind of rat or squirrel.

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**Who acts:** Meerkats · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** kind

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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 (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:7
# text = Meerkats are a kind of mongoose, not a kind of rat or squirrel.
# 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): no change
1	Meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Meerkats | a kind and a kind of rat or squirrel |  |  |  | of mongoose | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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