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title: In a wild pride the lionesses do most of the hunting, often together… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics
description: In a wild pride the lionesses do most of the hunting, often together, while the maned male guards the land and the cubs. Who acts: lionesses, maned male. A sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 7

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In a wild pride the lionesses do most of the hunting, often together, while the maned male guards the land and the cubs.

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**Who acts:** lionesses, maned male · **What happens:** do, guard · **To what, where:** most, wild pride, land

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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 (lionesses, maned male), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.lesson:7
# text = In a wild pride the lionesses do most of the hunting, often together, while the maned male guards the land and the cubs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lionesses	lioness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
18	maned	maned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod
19	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
20	guards	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | the lionesses | most of the hunting |  | a wild pride |  | together *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality |
| 2 | **guard** | present | the maned male | the land and the cubs |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary |

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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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**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:081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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