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title: In Kenya, hornbills and dwarf mongooses team up: the birds catch ins… — The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hy… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Kenya, hornbills and dwarf mongooses team up: the birds catch insects the mongooses disturb and call out warnings of hawks. Who acts: hornbills, birds, mongooses. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills» of the biology course of Mova
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# The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 15

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In Kenya, hornbills and dwarf mongooses team up: the birds catch insects the mongooses disturb and call out warnings of hawks.

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**Who acts:** hornbills, birds, mongooses · **What happens:** team up, catch, disturb, call out, warn · **To what, where:** Kenya, insects, warnings, hawks

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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 (hornbills, birds, mongooses), 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:15
# text = In Kenya, hornbills and dwarf mongooses team up: the birds catch insects the mongooses disturb and call out warnings of hawks.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	hornbills	hornbill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
6	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mongooses	mongoose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	team	team	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound:prt
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mongooses	mongoose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	warnings	warning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hawks	hawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **team up** | present | hornbills and dwarf mongooses |  |  | Kenya |  |  | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **catch** | present | the birds | insects |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme |
| 3 | **disturb** | infinitive | the mongooses | insects *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus insect=Experiencer |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | present | the mongooses *not said here* | warnings of hawks |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent warning=Recipient |
| 5 | **warn** |  |  | hawks |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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:15`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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