--- title: Adult meerkats teach pups to eat scorpions step by step: first dead… — Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole… · tree and pragmatics description: Adult meerkats teach pups to eat scorpions step by step: first dead ones, then ones with the sting removed, then live ones. Who acts: Adult meerkats, pups. A sentence of the lesson «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» of the biology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Team players and partners: meerkats, n…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings/) / 6 # Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 6 Adult meerkats teach pups to eat scorpions step by step: first dead ones, then ones with the sting removed, then live ones. **Who acts:** Adult meerkats, pups · **What happens:** teach, eat, remove · **To what, where:** pups, scorpions, ones This is a sentence of the lesson «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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 (Adult meerkats, pups), 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:6 # text = Adult meerkats teach pups to eat scorpions step by step: first dead ones, then ones with the sting removed, then live ones. # 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 1 Adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 pups pup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 8 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 advmod _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 24 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 26 . . 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 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Adult meerkats | pups | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent pup=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | pups *not said here* | scorpions | | | | by step | tree rules | | 3 | **remove** | participle | | ones with the sting *not said here* | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: 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:6`. **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. **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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