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title: Real lion life is less royal and more teamwork: lionesses do most of… — The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real lion life is less royal and more teamwork: lionesses do most of the hunting together, the males guard the land, and everyone sleeps up to about 20 hours a day. Who acts: Real lion life, lionesses, males, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prid
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# The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars, sentence 3

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Real lion life is less royal and more teamwork: lionesses do most of the hunting together, the males guard the land, and everyone sleeps up to about 20 hours a day.

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**Who acts:** Real lion life, lionesses, males, everyone · **What happens:** be, do, guard, sleep · **To what, where:** most, land

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars» 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 lion life, lionesses, males, everyone), 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:3
# text = Real lion life is less royal and more teamwork: lionesses do most of the hunting together, the males guard the land, and everyone sleeps up to about 20 hours a day.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
6	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	teamwork	teamwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	lionesses	lioness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	guard	guard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | Real lion life |  |  |  |  | less, royal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | lionesses | most of the hunting |  |  |  | together *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality |
| 3 | **guard** | present | the males | the land |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **sleep** | present | everyone |  |  |  | hour |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:3`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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