Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes, sentence 1

A bright orange tiger seems easy to spot, but deer cannot tell orange from green, so to them the tiger in the grass looks like dull green leaves with shadows.

Who acts: bright orange tiger, deer, tiger · What happens: seem, spot, not tell, look · To what, where: orange, green, deer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes» 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 (bright orange tiger, deer, tiger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tiger	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tiger	amod
3	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tiger	compound
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seems	nsubj
5	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seems	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 spot	mark
8	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
11	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tell	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seems	conj
15	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 green	case
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looks	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	27 looks	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 looks	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tiger	det
23	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 looks	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 grass	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 grass	det
26	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tiger	nmod
27	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seems	conj
28	like	like	ADP	_	31 leaves	case
29	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 leaves	amod
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 leaves	amod
31	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 looks	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 shadows	case
33	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 leaves	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seems	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	present	a bright orange tiger				easy property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	spot	to-infinitive	a bright orange tiger not said here					vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	not tell speech: assert	can	deer	orange		green		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent orange=Recipient
4	look	present	the tiger in the grass		deer		like dull green leaves with shadows	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to 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, 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:136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes.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): 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.

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