The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 7
In a wild pride the lionesses do most of the hunting, often together, while the maned male guards the land and the cubs.
Who acts: lionesses, maned male · What happens: do, guard · To what, where: most, wild pride, land
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 (lionesses, maned male), 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 | _ | 4 pride | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pride | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pride | amod |
| 4 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lionesses | det |
| 6 | lionesses | lioness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hunting | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hunting | det |
| 11 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 most | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 together | punct |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 together | advmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 do | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 guards | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 guards | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 male | det |
| 18 | maned | maned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 male | amod |
| 19 | male | male | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guards | nsubj |
| 20 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guards | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cubs | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cubs | det |
| 25 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 land | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the lionesses | most of the hunting | a wild pride | together property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | guard | present | the maned male | the land and the cubs | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary |
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:7.
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, R5-strong ×2, 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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