The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 1
Then it gets up, roars, and the glass seems to shake; a roar can carry about 8 kilometres on a still night and tells other lions «this land is ours».
Who acts: lion, glass, roar, land · What happens: get up, roar, seem, shake, carry, tell · To what, where: 8 kilometres, other lions, ours · Speech: someone speaks here
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, glass, roar, land), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gets | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 gets | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 roars | punct |
| 6 | roars | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seems | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seems | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 glass | det |
| 10 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seems | nsubj |
| 11 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 shake | mark |
| 13 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seems | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 roar | det |
| 16 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carry | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 carry | aux |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gets | parataxis |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 8 | advmod |
| 20 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 kilometres | nummod |
| 21 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carry | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 night | det |
| 24 | still | still | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 night | amod |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carry | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tells | cc |
| 27 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 carry | conj |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lions | amod |
| 29 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 tells | obj |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 ours | punct |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 land | det |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ours | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 ours | cop |
| 34 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tells | ccomp |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 ours | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | present | lion | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | roar | present | lion not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | the glass | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | shake | to-infinitive | the glass not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | carry | can | a roar | 8 kilometres | night | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme | |||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | present | a roar not said here | other lions | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | this land | ours | tree rules |
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:1.
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 ×3. 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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