--- title: One meerkat stands guard as a sentinel, watching for eagles and jack… — Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole… · tree and pragmatics description: One meerkat stands guard as a sentinel, watching for eagles and jackals, and gives different alarm calls for danger from the air and from the ground; meerkats that have just eaten well guard more often. Who acts: One meerkat, meerkats. 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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, meerkats), 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:5 # text = One meerkat stands guard as a sentinel, watching for eagles and jackals, and gives different alarm calls for danger from the air and from the ground; meerkats that have just eaten well guard more often. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 meerkat meerkat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sentinel sentinel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 jackals jackal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obj 32 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 36 guard guard VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 37 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 38 advmod _ _ 38 often often ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | guard | | | | as a sentinel | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guard=Stimulus | | 2 | **watch** | gerund | One meerkat *not said here* | | | | | for eagles and jackals | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for eagle=Theme | | 3 | **give** | present | One meerkat *not said here* | different alarm calls | | the air and the ground | | for danger | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent call=Theme for danger=Asset | | 4 | **eat** | present · perfect | meerkats | | | | | well *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **guard** | present | meerkats | | | | | often *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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 ×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. 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