--- title: That royal lion fills our world: statues in city squares, three lion… — The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts… · tree and pragmatics description: That royal lion fills our world: statues in city squares, three lions on the England shirt, the lion in Aesop's fables, Simba on Pride Rock, and Richard the Lionheart. Who acts: royal lion. 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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 (royal lion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.lesson:1 # text = That royal lion fills our world: statues in city squares, three lions on the England shirt, the lion in Aesop's fables, Simba on Pride Rock, and Richard the Lionheart. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 2 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 statues statue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 squares square NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 Aesop Aesop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 fables fable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Simba Simba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 Pride pride PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 Rock rock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 Richard Richard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Lionheart Lionheart PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | present | that royal lion | our world | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent world=Patient | 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:018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.lesson:1`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The lion: why people call it «king of…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/0/) - next →: [The lion: why people call it «king of…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/)