The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 9

Clouded leopards can climb down trees head first because their ankles turn backwards, and they have the longest canine teeth for their size of any living cat.

Who acts: Clouded leopards, ankles · What happens: cloud, climb down, turn, have · To what, where: trees head, longest canine teeth

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 (Clouded leopards, ankles), 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	Clouded	cloud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 leopards	amod
2	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climb	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	aux
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 climb	compound:prt
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 head	compound
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climb	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 climb	advmod
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 turn	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ankles	nmod:poss
11	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turn	nsubj
12	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	advcl
13	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	12 turn	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 teeth	det
19	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 teeth	amod
20	canine	canine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 teeth	amod
21	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 size	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 size	nmod:poss
24	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 teeth	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 cat	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 cat	det
27	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cat	compound
28	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 size	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climb	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cloud	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	climb down	can	Clouded leopards	trees head	first property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location head=Theme
3	turn	present	Americas's ankles		backwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	ankles = ankle	the longest canine teeth	for Americas's size of any living cat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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:9.

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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