The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 10
A cheetah hunts by sight, so it likes a high spot to watch open land; it can reach about 100 kilometres per hour, but only for a few hundred metres before it overheats.
Who acts: cheetah · What happens: hunt, like, watch, reach, overheat · To what, where: high spot, open land, 100 kilometres
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» 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 (cheetah), 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 cheetah | det |
| 2 | cheetah | cheetah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunts | nsubj |
| 3 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunts | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 likes | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 likes | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 likes | nsubj |
| 9 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunts | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spot | amod |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 likes | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 watch | mark |
| 14 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 spot | acl |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 land | amod |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watch | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 reach | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reach | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 reach | aux |
| 20 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hunts | conj |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 100 | advmod |
| 22 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 kilometres | nummod |
| 23 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reach | obj |
| 24 | per | per | ADP | _ | 25 hour | case |
| 25 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kilometres | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 metres | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 metres | cc |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 metres | advmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 metres | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 metres | det |
| 31 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 metres | amod |
| 32 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 metres | nummod |
| 33 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 kilometres | conj |
| 34 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 36 overheats | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 overheats | nsubj |
| 36 | overheats | overheat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 metres | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present | a cheetah | by sight | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | like | present | cheetah | a high spot | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | cheetah not said here | open land | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reach | can | cheetah | 100 kilometres but a few hundred metres | per hour | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme | |||
| 5 | overheat | present | cheetah | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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