The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 3
Tigers surprise people: they love water and swim between islands, they say hello with a soft puffing chuff, and every tiger's stripes are as unique as your fingerprints.
Who acts: Tigers, people, stripes, your · What happens: surprise, love, swim, say, be, fingerprint · To what, where: people, water, islands · 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, people, stripes, your), 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 surprise | nsubj |
| 2 | surprise | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 surprise | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 love | nsubj |
| 6 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 surprise | parataxis |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 love | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 swim | cc |
| 9 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 love | conj |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 islands | case |
| 11 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swim | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 love | parataxis |
| 15 | hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 14 say | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 chuff | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chuff | det |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chuff | amod |
| 19 | puffing | puffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chuff | compound |
| 20 | chuff | chuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 unique | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 unique | cc |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 tiger | det |
| 24 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stripes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 tiger | case |
| 26 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 unique | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 unique | cop |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 unique | advmod |
| 29 | unique | unique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 love | conj |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 fingerprints | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 fingerprints | nmod:poss |
| 32 | fingerprints | fingerprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 unique | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 surprise | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | present | Tigers | people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | love | present | people | water | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | swim | present | people not said here | islands | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between island=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | people | with a soft puffing chuff | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent hello=Theme with chuff=Manner | ||||
| 5 | is | present | every tiger's stripes | as your fingerprints; unique property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fingerprint | your | nom fingerprint «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:3.
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): R8-pos-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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