The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 0
In the big cats house a lion may lie on a warm rock for your whole visit, and that is not laziness: a lion hunts in short, hard bursts, so it saves its strength by resting up to 20 hours a day.
Who acts: lion, that, your · What happens: lie, not be, hunt, save, rest up, visit · To what, where: cats house, laziness, short hard bursts, strength
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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 (lion, that, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cats | amod |
| 4 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 house | compound |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lie | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lion | det |
| 7 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lie | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lie | aux |
| 9 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rock | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rock | det |
| 12 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rock | amod |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lie | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 visit | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 visit | nmod:poss |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 visit | amod |
| 17 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lie | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 laziness | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 laziness | cc |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 laziness | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 laziness | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 laziness | advmod |
| 23 | laziness | laziness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lie | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 hunts | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lion | det |
| 26 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hunts | nsubj |
| 27 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 laziness | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 short | case |
| 29 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bursts | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bursts | punct |
| 31 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bursts | amod |
| 32 | bursts | burst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hunts | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 saves | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 saves | advmod |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 saves | nsubj |
| 36 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lie | conj |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 strength | nmod:poss |
| 38 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 saves | obj |
| 39 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 40 resting | mark |
| 40 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 saves | advcl |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 resting | compound:prt |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 hours | case |
| 43 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 hours | nummod |
| 44 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 resting | obl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 day | det |
| 46 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 hours | nmod:unmarked |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | may | a lion | the cats house | on a warm rock; for your whole visit | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | |||
| 2 | not is a | present | that | laziness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hunt | present | a lion | short hard bursts | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | save | present | lion | lion's strength | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rest up | gerund | lion not said here | hour | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | visit | your | nom visit «act 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:081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.lesson:0.
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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