--- title: Meerkats eat beetles, grubs, spiders, lizards and scorpions; they bi… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics description: Meerkats eat beetles, grubs, spiders, lizards and scorpions; they bite off or avoid the stinger and can survive a little venom, and adults teach pups with dead scorpions first, then live ones whose sting has been removed. Who acts: Meerkats, beetles, adults. 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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, beetles, adults), 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:8 # text = Meerkats eat beetles, grubs, spiders, lizards and scorpions; they bite off or avoid the stinger and can survive a little venom, and adults teach pups with dead scorpions first, then live ones whose sting has been removed. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 grubs grub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 stinger stinger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 survive survive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 pups pup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 37 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 39 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl:relcl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Meerkats | beetles and grubs and spiders and lizards and scorpions | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient | | 2 | **bite off** | present | beetles *= beetle* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **avoid** | present | beetles *= beetle* *not said here* | the stinger | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent stinger=Location | | 4 | **survive** | can | beetles *= beetle* *not said here* | a little venom | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme venom=Circumstance | | 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | adults | pups | | | | with dead scorpions; live ones *obl*; first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pup=Recipient | | 6 | **remove** | present · perfect · passive | | sting | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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