Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 11

Cheetahs have dark tear lines from eyes to mouth that may cut the glare of the sun, and they hunt in the day, while most big cats hunt at night.

Who acts: Cheetahs, dark tear lines, lines, most big cats · What happens: have, cut, hunt · To what, where: dark tear lines, eyes, glare

This is a sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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 (Cheetahs, dark tear lines, lines, most big cats), 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	Cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lines	amod
4	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lines	compound
5	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lines	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eyes	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 cut	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	aux
12	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lines	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 glare	det
14	glare	glare	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sun	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glare	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hunt	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hunt	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hunt	nsubj
21	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hunt	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hunt	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 hunt	mark
27	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 cats	amod
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cats	amod
29	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hunt	nsubj
30	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hunt	advcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 night	case
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hunt	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	Cheetahs	dark tear lines	eyes to mouth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient
2	cut	may	dark tear lines	the glare of the sun			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glare=Product
3	hunt	present	lines = line			day	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hunt	present	most big cats			night	vn hunt-35.1 «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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:11.

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): 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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