The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 12

White tigers are ordinary Bengal tigers with a rare gene; breeding close relatives to get them causes health problems, so good zoos no longer do it.

Who acts: White tigers, breeding, good zoos · What happens: be, breed, get, cause, do · To what, where: ordinary Bengal tigers, close relatives, relatives, health problems, tiger

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 (White tigers, breeding, good zoos), 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	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tigers	amod
2	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tigers	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tigers	cop
4	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tigers	amod
5	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tigers	compound
6	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 do	parataxis
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 gene	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gene	det
9	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gene	amod
10	gene	gene	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tigers	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 causes	punct
12	breeding	breed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 causes	csubj
13	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 relatives	amod
14	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 breeding	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 get	mark
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 breeding	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 get	obj
18	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 do	parataxis
19	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 problems	compound
20	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 causes	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 zoos	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 zoos	amod
24	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 do	nsubj
25	no	no	ADV	_	26 longer	advmod
26	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 do	advmod
27	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tigers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	White tigers	ordinary Bengal tigers	with a rare gene	tree rules
2	breed	gerund		close relatives		tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive		relatives = relative		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	cause	present	breeding	health problems		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition problem=Patient
5	do	present	good zoos	tiger	long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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:12.

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 ×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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