The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 7

Stripes break up the tiger's outline, and deer cannot see red and orange well, so the orange tiger looks greenish to them, like grass.

Who acts: Stripes, deer, orange tiger · What happens: break up, not see, look · To what, where: outline, red

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 (Stripes, deer, orange 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	Stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 break	nsubj
2	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 break	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tiger	det
5	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outline	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 tiger	case
7	outline	outline	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 break	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
9	and	and	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	2 break	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	_	23 looks	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 looks	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tiger	det
21	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tiger	amod
22	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looks	nsubj
23	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 see	ccomp
24	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looks	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 greenish	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grass	punct
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 grass	case
29	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 greenish	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 break	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break up	present	Stripes	the tiger's outline		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outline=Patient
2	not see	can	deer	red	well property	tree rules
3	look	present	the orange tiger		greenish property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:7.

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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