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title: Hyenas look like dogs but are more closely related to cats and mongo… — The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hyenas look like dogs but are more closely related to cats and mongooses; the aardwolf is a small hyena that eats mostly termites. Who acts: Hyenas, aardwolf, small hyena. A sentence of the lesson «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills» of the biology course o
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# The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills, sentence 9

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Hyenas look like dogs but are more closely related to cats and mongooses; the aardwolf is a small hyena that eats mostly termites.

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**Who acts:** Hyenas, aardwolf, small hyena · **What happens:** look, be, eat · **To what, where:** small hyena, termites

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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 (Hyenas, aardwolf, small 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:9
# text = Hyenas look like dogs but are more closely related to cats and mongooses; the aardwolf is a small hyena that eats mostly termites.
# 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 ×2, R5-strong ×1
1	Hyenas	hyena	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
8	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
13	mongooses	mongoose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	aardwolf	aardwolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hyena	hyena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	termites	termite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **look** | present | Hyenas |  |  |  |  | like dogs | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Hyenas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to cats and mongooses; closely, related *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the aardwolf | a small hyena |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | present | a small hyena | termites |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent termite=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:9`.

**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 ×2, R5-strong ×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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