The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 0

The tiger is the biggest cat on Earth: a huge Amur or Bengal male can weigh about as much as three or four grown men and be about 3 metres long from nose to tail tip.

Who acts: tiger, Amur · What happens: be, weigh, grow · To what, where: biggest cat, Earth, much, nose

This is a sentence of the lesson «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter» 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 (tiger, Amur), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cat	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cat	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 cat	amod
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cat	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 weigh	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 male	det
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 male	amod
12	Amur	amur	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 weigh	nsubj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 male	cc
14	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Amur	conj
15	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Amur	conj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 weigh	aux
17	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cat	parataxis
18	about	about	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 weigh	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	26 men	case
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 men	nummod
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 four	cc
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 three	conj
25	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 men	amod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 much	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 long	cc
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 long	cop
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 3	advmod
30	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 metres	nummod
31	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 long	obl:unmarked
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 weigh	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 nose	case
34	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 long	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 tip	case
36	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tip	compound
37	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 nose	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the tiger	the biggest cat	Earth		tree rules
2	weigh	can	Amur and Bengal or a huge male	much			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value
3	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	infinitive	Amur and Bengal or a huge male not said here		nose to tail tip	3 metres obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules

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:019-the-tiger.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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