The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 16
A liger has a lion father and a tiger mother; ligers are bred only in zoos and parks, because lions and tigers live in different places in the wild, and ligers grow bigger than both parents.
Who acts: liger, lions, ligers · What happens: have, breed, live, grow · To what, where: lion father, ligers, zoos, different places
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 (liger, lions, ligers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 liger | det |
| 2 | liger | liger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 father | det |
| 5 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 father | compound |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mother | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | compound |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 father | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 bred | punct |
| 12 | ligers | liger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bred | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bred | aux:pass |
| 14 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 has | parataxis |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 zoos | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 zoos | case |
| 17 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bred | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 parks | cc |
| 19 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 zoos | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 live | mark |
| 22 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 live | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tigers | cc |
| 24 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lions | conj |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bred | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 places | case |
| 27 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 places | amod |
| 28 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 live | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 wild | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wild | det |
| 31 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 places | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 grow | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 grow | cc |
| 34 | ligers | liger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 grow | nsubj |
| 35 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bred | conj |
| 36 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 grow | xcomp |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 39 parents | case |
| 38 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 parents | det |
| 39 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 bigger | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a liger | a lion father and a tiger mother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | ||||
| 2 | breed | present · passive | ligers | zoos and parks | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | present | lions and tigers | different places in the wild | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | ligers | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:16.
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): 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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