--- title: In a meerkat group one meerkat stands on a rock as a guard while the… — Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole… · tree and pragmatics description: In a meerkat group one meerkat stands on a rock as a guard while the rest dig for beetles, and grown-ups even teach the pups how to eat a scorpion safely. Who acts: one meerkat, rest, grown ups. 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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 (one meerkat, rest, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:1 # text = In a meerkat group one meerkat stands on a rock as a guard while the rest dig for beetles, and grown-ups even teach the pups how to eat a scorpion safely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 meerkat meerkat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 meerkat meerkat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 24 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 pups pup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 scorpion scorpion NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 safely safely ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | one meerkat | | | a meerkat group | | on a rock; as a guard | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location | | 2 | **dig** | present | the rest | | | | | for beetles | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for beetle=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | grown ups | the pups | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pup=Recipient | | 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | a scorpion | | | | safely *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorpion=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:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.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 ×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. 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