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title: On the real savanna zebras, giraffes and wildebeest graze side by si… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos an… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the real savanna zebras, giraffes and wildebeest graze side by side, eating different parts of the plants and watching out for lions together. Who acts: real savanna zebras. A sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» of the biology course of Mova's prima
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# Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 4

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On the real savanna zebras, giraffes and wildebeest graze side by side, eating different parts of the plants and watching out for lions together.

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**Who acts:** real savanna zebras · **What happens:** graze, eat, watch out · **To what, where:** side, different parts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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 savanna zebras), 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:4
# text = On the real savanna zebras, giraffes and wildebeest graze side by side, eating different parts of the plants and watching out for lions together.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	savanna	savanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	zebras	zebras	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	wildebeest	wildebeest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	graze	graze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
16	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **graze** | present | the real savanna zebras and giraffes and wildebeest | side by side |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | the real savanna zebras and giraffes and wildebeest *not said here* | different parts of the plants |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 3 | **watch out** | gerund | the real savanna zebras and giraffes and wildebeest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for lions; together *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for lion=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): R1-cc-next ×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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