The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 8
Tigers swim well and cool off in pools and rivers; most cats dislike water, but tigers, jaguars and fishing cats are happy swimmers.
Who acts: Tigers, most cats · What happens: swim, cool off, dislike, be · To what, where: pools, water, happy swimmers
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 (Tigers, most 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 | Tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swim | nsubj |
| 2 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 swim | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cool | cc |
| 5 | cool | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 swim | conj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 cool | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pools | case |
| 8 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cool | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rivers | cc |
| 10 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pools | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 dislike | punct |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 cats | amod |
| 13 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dislike | nsubj |
| 14 | dislike | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 swim | parataxis |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dislike | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 swimmers | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 tigers | cc |
| 18 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 swimmers | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 jaguars | punct |
| 20 | jaguars | jaguar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tigers | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cats | cc |
| 22 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cats | compound |
| 23 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tigers | conj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 swimmers | cop |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 swimmers | amod |
| 26 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dislike | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | Tigers | well property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cool off | present | Tigers not said here | pools and rivers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dislike | present | most cats | water | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | tigers and jaguars and fishing cats | happy swimmers | 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:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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