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title: Red-billed hornbills live in dry African savannas, eating insects, s… — The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Red-billed hornbills live in dry African savannas, eating insects, seeds and small animals on the ground; the big bill is light because it is hollow inside. Who acts: billed hornbills, big bill, bill. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornb
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# The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 13

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Red-billed hornbills live in dry African savannas, eating insects, seeds and small animals on the ground; the big bill is light because it is hollow inside.

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**Who acts:** billed hornbills, big bill, bill · **What happens:** bill, live, eat, be · **To what, where:** dry African savannas

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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 (billed hornbills, big bill, bill), 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:13
# text = Red-billed hornbills live in dry African savannas, eating insects, seeds and small animals on the ground; the big bill is light because it is hollow inside.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	billed	bill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	hornbills	hornbill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	savannas	savanna	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
31	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **bill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | present | billed hornbills |  |  | dry African savannas and eating insects and seeds and small animals on the ground |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in savanna=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the big bill |  |  |  |  | light *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | bill |  |  |  |  | hollow, inside *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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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