--- title: A female red-billed hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with mud… — The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hy… · tree and pragmatics description: A female red-billed hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with mud and droppings, and the male feeds her and the chicks through a narrow slit; the wall keeps snakes, monkeys and other egg thieves out, and when the chicks are big the mother breaks out and the chicks seal the hole again behind her. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zaz…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/) / 14 # The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 14 A female red-billed hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with mud and droppings, and the male feeds her and the chicks through a narrow slit; the wall keeps snakes, monkeys and other egg thieves out, and when the chicks are big the mother breaks out and the chicks seal the hole again behind her. **Who acts:** female billed hornbill, male, wall, chicks, mother · **What happens:** bill, seal, feed, keep, be, break out · **To what, where:** hornbill, tree hole, narrow slit, snakes, hole 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 (female billed hornbill, male, wall, chicks), 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:14 # text = A female red-billed hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with mud and droppings, and the male feeds her and the chicks through a narrow slit; the wall keeps snakes, monkeys and other egg thieves out, and when the chicks are big the mother breaks out and the chicks seal the hole again behind her. # 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 ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 3 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 billed bill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 hornbill hornbill NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 seals seal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 26 through through ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 slit slit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 34 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 thieves thief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 41 out out ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 44 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 48 advmod _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 47 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 48 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 advcl _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 51 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 52 out out ADP RP _ 51 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nsubj _ _ 56 seal seal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 conj _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ _ 59 again again ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=61:advmod 60 behind behind ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 obl _ _ 62 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **seal** | present | a female billed hornbill | hornbill | | a tree hole with mud and droppings | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | | 3 | **feed** | present | the male | | hornbill | a narrow slit | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 4 | **keep** | present | the wall | snakes and monkeys and other egg thieves | | | | out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the chicks | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **break out** | present | the mother | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **seal** | present | the chicks | the hole | | | again | behind hornbill | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=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. 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