--- title: The lion is on many coats of arms and flags, like England's three li… — The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts… · tree and pragmatics description: The lion is on many coats of arms and flags, like England's three lions, Scotland's red lion and Sri Lanka's flag, as a symbol of courage and strength; King Richard I was called the Lionheart for his bravery. 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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: 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:11 # text = The lion is on many coats of arms and flags, like England's three lions, Scotland's red lion and Sri Lanka's flag, as a symbol of courage and strength; King Richard I was called the Lionheart for his bravery. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 flags flag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 Sri Sri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 Lanka Lanka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 26 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 symbol symbol NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Richard Richard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 I I PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 flat _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Lionheart Lionheart PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 xcomp _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 bravery bravery NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:nmod 46 . . 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 | **is** | present | | | | many coats | | of arms and flags | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | past · passive | | King Richard | | | | for lion's bravery | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for bravery=Beneficiary | 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: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): R5-strong ×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…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/10/) - next →: [The lion: why people call it «king of…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/)