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title: Mandrills have very long canine teeth, and a wide yawn shows them of… — The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mandrills have very long canine teeth, and a wide yawn shows them off as a warning to rivals. Who acts: Mandrills, wide yawn. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 12

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Mandrills have very long canine teeth, and a wide yawn shows them off as a warning to rivals.

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**Who acts:** Mandrills, wide yawn · **What happens:** have, show off · **To what, where:** long canine teeth, mandrill

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills» 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 (Mandrills, wide yawn), 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:12
# text = Mandrills have very long canine teeth, and a wide yawn shows them off as a warning to rivals.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Mandrills	mandrill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	canine	canine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	yawn	yawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	rivals	rival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Mandrills | long canine teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **show off** | present | a wide yawn | mandrill |  |  |  | as a warning to rivals | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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): 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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