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title: The dark fur round a meerkat's eyes cuts down glare from the bright… — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs · tree and pragmatics
description: The dark fur round a meerkat's eyes cuts down glare from the bright desert sun, and meerkats can close their ears when they dig. Who acts: dark fur, meerkats, ears. A sentence of the lesson «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs, sentence 9

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The dark fur round a meerkat's eyes cuts down glare from the bright desert sun, and meerkats can close their ears when they dig.

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**Who acts:** dark fur, meerkats, ears · **What happens:** cut down, close, dig · **To what, where:** glare, bright desert sun, ears

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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 (dark fur, meerkats, ears), 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:9
# text = The dark fur round a meerkat's eyes cuts down glare from the bright desert sun, and meerkats can close their ears when they dig.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	meerkat	meerkat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	cuts	cut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	glare	glare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **cut down** | present | the dark fur round a meerkat's eyes | glare |  | the bright desert sun |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset glare=Product from sun=Material |
| 2 | **close** | can | meerkats | eyes's ears |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 3 | **dig** | present | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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.

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