The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 2

To us a tiger is bright orange, but deer cannot see red and orange well, so to them the striped tiger looks greenish and melts into the grass and shadows.

Who acts: tiger, deer, striped tiger · What happens: be, not see, look, melt · To what, where: us, red, deer, grass

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, deer, striped 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 us	case
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 orange	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tiger	det
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 orange	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 orange	cop
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 orange	amod
7	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
10	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 see	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 see	advmod
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 orange	conj
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 see	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 orange	cc
16	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 red	conj
17	well	well	ADV	_	13 see	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looks	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	25 looks	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looks	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tiger	det
23	striped	striped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tiger	amod
24	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looks	nsubj
25	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 see	ccomp
26	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 looks	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 melts	cc
28	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 looks	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 grass	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grass	det
31	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 melts	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 shadows	cc
33	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grass	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 orange	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a tiger		us		orange property	tree rules
2	not see	can	deer	red			well property	tree rules
3	look	present	the striped tiger		deer		greenish property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to they=Experiencer
4	melt	present	the striped tiger not said here			the grass and shadows		vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into grass=Product

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:2.

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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