--- title: Grass is the savanna's bread: zebras, wildebeest and gazelles graze… — The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds · tree and pragmatics description: Grass is the savanna's bread: zebras, wildebeest and gazelles graze it, and lions, cheetahs and hyenas hunt the grazers, so when the rain moves, the whole crowd moves after it. Who acts: Grass, zebras, rain, whole crowd. 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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 (Grass, zebras, rain, whole crowd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:004-the-savanna.lesson:1 # text = Grass is the savanna's bread: zebras, wildebeest and gazelles graze it, and lions, cheetahs and hyenas hunt the grazers, so when the rain moves, the whole crowd moves after it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 004-the-savanna.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 savanna savanna NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 zebras zebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 wildebeest wildebeest NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 gazelles gazelle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 graze graze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 cheetahs cheetah NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 hyenas hyena NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 grazers grazer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Grass | the savanna's bread and lions and cheetahs and hyenas | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **graze** | present | zebras and wildebeest | grass | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **hunt** | present | zebras and wildebeest *not said here* | the grazers | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grazer=Theme | | 4 | **move** | present | the rain | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **move** | present | the whole crowd | | | | after grass | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:004-the-savanna.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 ×3, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The savanna: grass, trees and the grea…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/0/) - next →: [The savanna: grass, trees and the grea…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/)