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title: The Lion King opens with every animal bowing on Pride Rock; real her… — The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lion King opens with every animal bowing on Pride Rock; real herds keep well away from lions, Rafiki's mandrill-like face belongs to a rainforest monkey, and spotted hyenas are not silly scavengers but clever hunters led by females. Who acts: Lion King, animal, real herds, mandrill like face. A 
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# The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 3

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The Lion King opens with every animal bowing on Pride Rock; real herds keep well away from lions, Rafiki's mandrill-like face belongs to a rainforest monkey, and spotted hyenas are not silly scavengers but clever hunters led by females.

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**Who acts:** Lion King, animal, real herds, mandrill like face, spotted hyenas, silly scavengers · **What happens:** open, bow, keep, belong, spot, not be · **To what, where:** Pride Rock, silly scavengers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds» 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 (Lion King, animal, real herds, mandrill like face), 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:3
# text = The Lion King opens with every animal bowing on Pride Rock; real herds keep well away from lions, Rafiki's mandrill-like face belongs to a rainforest monkey, and spotted hyenas are not silly scavengers but clever hunters led by females.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Pride	pride	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	Rock	rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	Rafiki	Rafiki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	mandrill	mandrill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
34	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
35	hyenas	hyena	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	scavengers	scavenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
43	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | the Lion King |  |  |  |  | with every animal | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bow** | gerund | every animal *not said here* |  |  | Pride Rock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location |
| 3 | **keep** | present | real herds |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **belong** | present | Rafiki's mandrill like face |  |  |  |  | to a rainforest monkey | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **spot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | present | spotted hyenas | silly scavengers but clever hunters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lead** | participle | silly scavengers but clever hunters |  |  |  |  | by females | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by female=Destination |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5. **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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