--- title: Real spotted hyenas are skilled hunters that run down zebras and wil… — The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hy… · tree and pragmatics description: Real spotted hyenas are skilled hunters that run down zebras and wildebeest, and in some places lions steal from hyenas more often than hyenas steal from lions. Who acts: spotted hyenas, skilled hunters, lions, hyenas. 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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 (spotted hyenas, skilled hunters, lions, hyenas), 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:1 # text = Real spotted hyenas are skilled hunters that run down zebras and wildebeest, and in some places lions steal from hyenas more often than hyenas steal from lions. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Real real ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 spotted spot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 hyenas hyena NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 skilled skilled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 zebras zebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 wildebeest wildebeest NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 17 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 18 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 steal steal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 hyenas hyena NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 23 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 than than SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 25 hyenas hyena NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 steal steal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spot** | participle | | | | | | real *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 2 | **is a** | present | spotted hyenas | skilled hunters | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **run down** | present | skilled hunters | zebras and wildebeest | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zebra=Agent | | 4 | **steal** | present | lions | | | some places | | from hyenas; often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 5 | **steal** | present | hyenas | | | | | from lions | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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