The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 6

Every tiger has its own stripe pattern, and scientists use camera traps and stripes to recognise and count wild tigers; even the skin under the fur is striped.

Who acts: tiger, scientists, male · What happens: have, use, recognise, count, stripe, pattern · To what, where: own stripe pattern, camera traps, wild tigers, skin

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, scientists, male), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pattern	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pattern	amod
6	stripe	stripe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pattern	compound
7	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 use	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 use	cc
10	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 use	nsubj
11	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
12	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traps	compound
13	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 use	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stripes	cc
15	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 traps	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 recognise	mark
17	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 use	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 count	cc
19	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 recognise	conj
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tigers	amod
21	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 count	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 striped	punct
23	even	even	ADV	_	25 skin	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 skin	det
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 striped	nsubj:pass
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 fur	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fur	det
28	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 skin	nmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 striped	aux:pass
30	striped	stripe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 has	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	every tiger	male's own stripe pattern	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient
2	use	present	scientists	camera traps and stripes	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Patient
3	recognise	to-infinitive	scientists not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	count	infinitive	scientists not said here	wild tigers	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme
5	stripe	present · passive		the skin under the fur	tree rules
6	pattern		male		nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: 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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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