--- title: But the poster saying king of the jungle is wrong: lions live on sav… — The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts… · tree and pragmatics description: But the poster saying king of the jungle is wrong: lions live on savanna, grassland and open woodland in Africa, and one small group in the dry Gir Forest of India, not in jungles. Who acts: poster, lions. 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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 (poster, lions), 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:2 # text = But the poster saying king of the jungle is wrong: lions live on savanna, grassland and open woodland in Africa, and one small group in the dry Gir Forest of India, not in jungles. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 poster poster NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 jungle jungle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 savanna savanna NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 grassland grassland NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 woodland woodland NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:NN:Degree=Pos 31 Gir Gir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Forest Forest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 jungles jungle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the poster *not said here* | king of the jungle | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | the poster | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | present | lions | one small group in the dry Gir Forest of India in jungles | | savanna and grassland and open woodland in Africa | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on savanna=Location | 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:2`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The lion: why people call it «king of…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/1/) - next →: [The lion: why people call it «king of…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/)