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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giggle, spotted hyena), 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:6 # text = A spotted hyena's giggle usually means it is nervous, excited or frustrated, not happy; its «whoop» can be heard several kilometres away. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 spotted spot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 hyena hyena NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 giggle giggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 usually usually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 excited excited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 frustrated frustrated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 whoop whoop NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 26 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl:unmarked 28 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spot** | participle | | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 2 | **mean** | present | a spotted hyena's giggle | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | giggle | | | | | nervous *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | giggle *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | giggle *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **be** | | giggle *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **hear** | can · passive | | giggle's whoop | | | | away *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 8 | **giggle** | | a spotted hyena | | | | | | nom giggle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **whoop** *in a quote* | | giggle | | | | | | nom whoop «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu.lesson:6`. **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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