The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 13
Pumas, also called cougars or mountain lions, chirp, hiss, purr and scream but cannot roar; a mountain lion is not a lion.
Who acts: Pumas, mountain lion · What happens: call, chirp, hiss, purr, scream, not roar · To what, where: cougars, lion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Pumas, mountain lion), 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 | Pumas | puma | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pumas | acl |
| 5 | cougars | cougar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 lions | cc |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lions | compound |
| 8 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cougars | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chirp | punct |
| 10 | chirp | chirp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pumas | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hiss | punct |
| 12 | hiss | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 chirp | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 purr | punct |
| 14 | purr | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 chirp | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scream | cc |
| 16 | scream | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 purr | conj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 roar | cc |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 roar | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 roar | advmod |
| 20 | roar | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 chirp | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 lion | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 lion | det |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lion | compound |
| 24 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lion | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 lion | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 lion | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 lion | det |
| 28 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pumas | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pumas | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Pumas and a lion not said here | cougars or mountain lions | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | chirp | present | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hiss | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | purr | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | scream speech: express | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | not roar | can | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | not is a | present | a mountain lion | a lion | 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:082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.lesson:13.
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): no change. 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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