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title: Lions have a special voice box with square-shaped folds that make a… — The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lions have a special voice box with square-shaped folds that make a very deep, loud sound. Who acts: Lions, shaped folds. 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 with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars, sentence 7

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Lions have a special voice box with square-shaped folds that make a very deep, loud sound.

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**Who acts:** Lions, shaped folds · **What happens:** have, shape, make · **To what, where:** special voice box, deep loud sound

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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 (Lions, shaped folds), 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:7
# text = Lions have a special voice box with square-shaped folds that make a very deep, loud sound.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Lions | a special voice box |  |  |  | with shaped folds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient |
| 2 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **make** | present | shaped folds | a deep loud sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |

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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:7`.

**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 ×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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