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title: In The Lion King, Zazu is a red-billed hornbill; real hornbills do n… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics
description: In The Lion King, Zazu is a red-billed hornbill; real hornbills do not talk or serve kings, but the beak and the African savanna are true to life. Who acts: Zazu, real hornbills, beak. A sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho
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# The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 4

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In The Lion King, Zazu is a red-billed hornbill; real hornbills do not talk or serve kings, but the beak and the African savanna are true to life.

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**Who acts:** Zazu, real hornbills, beak · **What happens:** bill, be, not talk, serve · **To what, where:** red billed hornbill, kings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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 (Zazu, real hornbills, beak), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:4
# text = In The Lion King, Zazu is a red-billed hornbill; real hornbills do not talk or serve kings, but the beak and the African savanna are true to life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Zazu	Zazu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	billed	bill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	hornbill	hornbill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hornbills	hornbill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	savanna	savanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Zazu | a red billed hornbill |  |  |  | in the Lion King | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **talk** | present · do-support | real hornbills |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **serve** | infinitive | real hornbills *not said here* | kings |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** | present | the beak and the African savanna |  |  |  |  | to life; true *property* | tree rules |

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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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:4`.

**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): no change. **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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