--- title: In The Lion King the hyenas are cackling, lazy thieves, Rafiki is a… — The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hy… · tree and pragmatics description: In The Lion King the hyenas are cackling, lazy thieves, Rafiki is a wise old mandrill on the savanna, and Zazu is a hornbill who flies about reporting news. Who acts: hyenas, Rafiki, Zazu, hornbill. 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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 (hyenas, Rafiki, Zazu, hornbill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu.lesson:0 # text = In The Lion King the hyenas are cackling, lazy thieves, Rafiki is a wise old mandrill on the savanna, and Zazu is a hornbill who flies about reporting news. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hyenas hyena NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 cackling cackle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 thieves thief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 13 Rafiki Rafiki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 mandrill mandrill NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 savanna savanna NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 Zazu Zazu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hornbill hornbill NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 reporting report VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 32 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cackle** | present · progressive | the hyenas | | | | | in the Lion King | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in king=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Rafiki | a wise old mandrill and a hornbill | | the savanna | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | Zazu | a hornbill | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fly** | present | a hornbill | | | | | about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **report** | gerund | a hornbill *not said here* | news | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | 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:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu.lesson:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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