The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 10

A tiger's skin is striped under the fur, and no two tigers have the same stripes, so scientists tell them apart from camera photos.

Who acts: two tigers, scientists · What happens: stripe, have, tell · To what, where: skin, fur, same stripes, stripes · 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 (two tigers, scientists), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 tiger	case
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 striped	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 striped	aux:pass
6	striped	stripe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 fur	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fur	det
9	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 striped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 tigers	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 tigers	nummod
14	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 striped	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stripes	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stripes	amod
18	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 tell	advmod
21	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tell	nsubj
22	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 striped	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	obj
24	apart	apart	ADV	_	22 tell	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 photos	case
26	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 photos	compound
27	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 apart	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 striped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stripe	present · passive		a tiger's skin		the fur		tree rules
2	have	present	no two tigers	the same stripes				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	present	scientists		stripes = stripe		apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:10.

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): 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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