The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 15

A lion needs about 5 to 7 kilograms of meat a day, which would be hundreds of mice, so big cats hunt zebras, antelopes and other large animals.

Who acts: lion, day, big cats · What happens: need, be, hunt · To what, where: 5 kilograms, hundreds, zebras

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, day, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 5	advmod
5	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 kilograms	nummod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 7	case
7	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 5	nmod
8	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needs	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 meat	case
10	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kilograms	nmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hundreds	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hundreds	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hundreds	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 hundreds	cop
17	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 day	acl:relcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 mice	case
19	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hundreds	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hunt	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 hunt	advmod
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cats	amod
23	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hunt	nsubj
24	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needs	parataxis
25	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hunt	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 antelopes	punct
27	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 zebras	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 animals	cc
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 animals	amod
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 animals	amod
31	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 zebras	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	a lion	5 kilograms of meat	day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kilogram=Theme
2	is a	would	a day	hundreds		of mice	tree rules
3	hunt	present	big cats	zebras and antelopes and other large animals			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zebra=Theme

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:15.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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