--- title: Real meerkats live in groups of up to about 50 in southern Africa, l… — Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole… · tree and pragmatics description: Real meerkats live in groups of up to about 50 in southern Africa, led by a dominant female who has most of the pups while the others help to raise them. Who acts: Real meerkats, dominant female, others. 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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 (Real meerkats, dominant female, others), 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:7 # text = Real meerkats live in groups of up to about 50 in southern Africa, led by a dominant female who has most of the pups while the others help to raise them. # 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 ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 up up ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 dominant dominant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 female female NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:agent _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pups pup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obj 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 raise raise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Real meerkats | | | groups of 50 | | in southern Africa | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | | 2 | **lead** | participle | Real meerkats *not said here* | | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 3 | **have** | present | a dominant female | most of the pups | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient | | 4 | **help** | present | the others | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **raise** | to-infinitive | the others *not said here* | others *= other* | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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: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): R5-strong ×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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