The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 6

The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size and often kills by biting through the skull or a turtle's shell.

Who acts: jaguar · What happens: have, kill, bite · To what, where: strongest bite, skull, big cat

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 (jaguar), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jaguar	det
2	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bite	det
5	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 bite	amod
6	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 cat	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 cat	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cat	amod
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 size	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 size	nmod:poss
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kills	cc
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 kills	advmod
16	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 biting	mark
18	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 kills	advcl
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 skull	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 skull	det
21	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 biting	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 shell	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 turtle	det
24	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shell	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 turtle	case
26	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 skull	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the jaguar	the strongest bite of any big cat		for jaguar's size	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient
2	kill	present	the jaguar not said here			often property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	bite	gerund	the jaguar not said here		the skull or a turtle's shell		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent through skull=Location
4	bite			any big cat			nom bite «state transitive»: of=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:6.

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): R5-strong ×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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