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title: In spotted hyena clans the females are in charge and are bigger and… — The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hy… · tree and pragmatics
description: In spotted hyena clans the females are in charge and are bigger and stronger than the males; a clan can have up to about 80 members. Who acts: females, clan. 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 prima
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# The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 7

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In spotted hyena clans the females are in charge and are bigger and stronger than the males; a clan can have up to about 80 members.

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**Who acts:** females, clan · **What happens:** be, have up · **To what, where:** spotted hyena clans, charge, 80 members

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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 (females, clan), 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:7
# text = In spotted hyena clans the females are in charge and are bigger and stronger than the males; a clan can have up to about 80 members.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	spotted	spot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hyena	hyena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	clans	clan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **is** | present | the females | spotted hyena clans *not said here* |  | charge |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the females *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than the males; big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the females *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have up** | can | a clan | 80 members |  | spotted hyena clans |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=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:7`.

**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.

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

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