The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 1
Unlike the lion, the tiger lives and hunts alone, slipping through forest and tall grass, creeping close and low, then rushing its prey in one short burst.
Who acts: tiger · What happens: live, hunt, slip, creep, rush · To what, where: forest, prey, one short burst
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), 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 | Unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 3 lion | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lion | det |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lives | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lion | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tiger | det |
| 6 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lives | nsubj |
| 7 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hunts | cc |
| 9 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lives | conj |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 hunts | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slipping | punct |
| 12 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lives | advcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slipping | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 grass | cc |
| 16 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grass | amod |
| 17 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forest | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 creeping | punct |
| 19 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 slipping | conj |
| 20 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 creeping | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 low | cc |
| 22 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 close | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rushing | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 rushing | advmod |
| 25 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lives | conj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 prey | nmod:poss |
| 27 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rushing | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 burst | case |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 burst | nummod |
| 30 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 burst | amod |
| 31 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rushing | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the tiger | unlike the lion | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | present | the tiger not said here | alone property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | slip | gerund | the tiger not said here | forest and tall grass | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | creep | gerund | the tiger not said here | close property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rush | gerund | the tiger not said here | tiger's prey | one short burst | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent prey=Theme in burst=Trajectory |
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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.
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