The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 12

Tigers greet friends with a soft puffing sound called chuffing, or prusten; they can roar too, but chuffing is for friends.

Who acts: Tigers, soft puffing sound, friends, chuffing · What happens: greet, call, prusten, roar, be · To what, where: friends, chuffing · 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, soft puffing sound, friends, chuffing), 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	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 greet	nsubj
2	greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 greet	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 sound	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sound	det
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sound	amod
7	puffing	puffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	compound
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 greet	obl
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sound	acl
10	chuffing	chuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 prusten	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 prusten	cc
13	prusten	prusten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 chuffing	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 roar	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 roar	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 roar	aux
17	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 greet	parataxis
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 roar	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 friends	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 chuffing	cc
21	chuffing	chuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 friends	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 friends	cop
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 friends	case
24	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 roar	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 greet	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present	Tigers		friends	with a soft puffing sound	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
2	call	participle	a soft puffing sound not said here	chuffing			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	prusten	participle	a soft puffing sound not said here				tree rules
4	roar	can	friends = friend				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	chuffing			for friends	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:12.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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