--- title: Hippos spend the day in water and come out at night to eat grass; th… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos an… · tree and pragmatics description: Hippos spend the day in water and come out at night to eat grass; their long tusks are for fighting, and they are among the most dangerous large animals in Africa. Who acts: Hippos, long tusks, tusks. 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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 (Hippos, long tusks, tusks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:11 # text = Hippos spend the day in water and come out at night to eat grass; their long tusks are for fighting, and they are among the most dangerous large animals in Africa. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hippos hippo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 out out ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 tusks tusk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 21 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 26 among among ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 29 advmod _ _ 29 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | present | Hippos | | | water | day | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come out** | present | Hippos *not said here* | | | | night | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Hippos *not said here* | grass | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | stripes's long tusks | | | | | fight *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | tusks *= tusk* | | | Africa | | among the dangerous large animals | tree rules | 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:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:11`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. 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