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title: Predators and prey sometimes drink near each other, and zebras watch… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics
description: Predators and prey sometimes drink near each other, and zebras watch lions closely but run only if the lions come towards them. Who acts: Predators, zebras, lions. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 14

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Predators and prey sometimes drink near each other, and zebras watch lions closely but run only if the lions come towards them.

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**Who acts:** Predators, zebras, lions · **What happens:** drink, watch, run, come · **To what, where:** other, lions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» 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 (Predators, zebras, lions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.lesson:14
# text = Predators and prey sometimes drink near each other, and zebras watch lions closely but run only if the lions come towards them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	zebras	zebra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
22	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **drink** | present | Predators and prey |  |  | each other |  | sometimes *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | present | zebras | lions |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | present | zebras *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the lions |  |  |  |  | towards predators *= predator* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial\_Location |

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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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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