The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 11
Tigers usually attack from behind or the side, so Sundarbans honey collectors once wore face masks on the backs of their heads to make a tiger think it was being watched.
Who acts: Tigers, Sundarbans honey collectors, tiger · What happens: attack, wear, make, think, watch · To what, where: side, face masks, backs, tiger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tigers, Sundarbans honey collectors, 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 | Tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attack | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 attack | advmod |
| 3 | attack | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 side | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attack | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wore | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 wore | advmod |
| 11 | Sundarbans | Sundarbans | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 collectors | compound |
| 12 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 collectors | compound |
| 13 | collectors | collector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wore | nsubj |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 wore | advmod |
| 15 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 attack | parataxis |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 masks | compound |
| 17 | masks | mask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wore | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 backs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 backs | det |
| 20 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wore | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 heads | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heads | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 backs | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wore | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tiger | det |
| 27 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 make | xcomp |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 watched | aux:pass |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 watched | aux:pass |
| 32 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 think | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attack | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | present | Tigers | the side | usually property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | wear | past | Sundarbans honey collectors | face masks | the backs of collectors's heads | once property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mask=Theme | ||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Sundarbans honey collectors not said here | a tiger | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | infinitive | a tiger not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | watch | past · passive | side | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:019-the-tiger.lesson:11.
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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