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title: Real red-billed hornbills hop about the savanna for insects and seed… — The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real red-billed hornbills hop about the savanna for insects and seeds, team up with dwarf mongooses, and the mother seals herself into a tree hole with mud to keep her chicks safe. Who acts: Real billed hornbills, mother. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas
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# The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 4

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Real red-billed hornbills hop about the savanna for insects and seeds, team up with dwarf mongooses, and the mother seals herself into a tree hole with mud to keep her chicks safe.

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**Who acts:** Real billed hornbills, mother · **What happens:** bill, hop, team up, seal, keep · **To what, where:** mother, tree hole, chicks

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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 (Real billed hornbills, mother), 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:4
# text = Real red-billed hornbills hop about the savanna for insects and seeds, team up with dwarf mongooses, and the mother seals herself into a tree hole with mud to keep her chicks safe.
# 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): no change
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	billed	bill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	hornbills	hornbill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hop	hop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	savanna	savanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	team	team	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mongooses	mongoose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seals	seal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hop** | present | Real billed hornbills |  |  |  |  | about the savanna for insects and seeds | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about savanna=Trajectory |
| 3 | **team up** | present | Real billed hornbills *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with dwarf mongooses | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mongoose=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **seal** | present | the mother | mother |  | a tree hole with mud |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the mother *not said here* | mother's chicks |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme |

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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): no change. **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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