The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 9

Tigers stalk slowly and quietly, then make a short rush from close by, because they are strong but not built for long chases; perhaps only about 1 hunt in 10 succeeds.

Who acts: Tigers, you, cubs, 1 hunt · What happens: stalk, make, be, not build, succeed · To what, where: short rush

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, you, cubs, 1 hunt), 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	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stalk	nsubj
2	stalk	stalk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 make	conj
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 stalk	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 quietly	cc
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 slowly	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 make	advmod
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rush	det
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rush	amod
11	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 close	case
13	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 rush	nmod
14	by	by	ADV	_	13 close	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 strong	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 strong	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 strong	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 strong	cop
19	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	advcl
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 built	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 built	advmod
22	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 strong	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 chases	case
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 chases	amod
25	chases	chase	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 built	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 hunt	punct
27	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	31 hunt	advmod
28	only	only	ADV	_	31 hunt	advmod
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 1	advmod
30	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 hunt	nummod
31	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 succeeds	nsubj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 10	case
33	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 hunt	nmod
34	succeeds	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 strong	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stalk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stalk	present	Tigers			slowly property	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	imperative	you not said here	a short rush	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset rush=Product from close=Material
3	is	present	cubs = cub			strong property	tree rules
4	not build	participle	cubs = cub not said here			for long chases	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for chase=Asset
5	succeed	present	1 hunt in 10				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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