Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 5
Snow leopards cannot roar like lions and tigers; they hiss, growl and make a puffing sound instead.
Who acts: Snow leopards, leopards · What happens: not roar, hiss, growl, make · To what, where: puffing sound
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (Snow leopards, leopards), 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 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leopards | compound |
| 2 | leopards | leopard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roar | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 roar | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 roar | advmod |
| 5 | roar | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 lions | case |
| 7 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roar | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tigers | cc |
| 9 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lions | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 hiss | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hiss | nsubj |
| 12 | hiss | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 roar | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 growl | punct |
| 14 | growl | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hiss | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hiss | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sound | det |
| 18 | puffing | puffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sound | compound |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 20 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 16 make | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 roar | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not roar | can | Snow leopards | like lions and tigers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | hiss | present | leopards = leopard | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | growl | present | leopards = leopard not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | present | leopards = leopard not said here | a puffing sound | instead property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:5.
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): R8-pos-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.
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