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title: Snow leopards cannot roar like lions and tigers; they hiss, growl an… — Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flyi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Snow leopards cannot roar like lions and tigers; they hiss, growl and make a puffing sound instead. Who acts: Snow leopards, leopards. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 5

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Snow leopards cannot roar like lions and tigers; they hiss, growl and make a puffing sound instead.

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**Who acts:** Snow leopards, leopards · **What happens:** not roar, hiss, growl, make · **To what, where:** puffing sound

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (Snow leopards, leopards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:5
# text = Snow leopards cannot roar like lions and tigers; they hiss, growl and make a puffing sound instead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	roar	roar	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hiss	hiss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	growl	growl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	puffing	puffing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **roar** | can | Snow leopards |  |  |  |  | like lions and tigers | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **hiss** | present | leopards *= leopard* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **growl** | present | leopards *= leopard* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present | leopards *= leopard* *not said here* | a puffing sound |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |

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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.

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**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): 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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