--- title: The tiger is the biggest cat on Earth: a huge Amur or Bengal male ca… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics description: The tiger is the biggest cat on Earth: a huge Amur or Bengal male can weigh about as much as three or four grown men and be about 3 metres long from nose to tail tip. Who acts: tiger, Amur. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiger, Amur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:019-the-tiger.lesson:0 # text = The tiger is the biggest cat on Earth: a huge Amur or Bengal male can weigh about as much as three or four grown men and be about 3 metres long from nose to tail tip. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 019-the-tiger.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 11 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod 12 Amur amur NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound 15 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl 18 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obj _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 22 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 conj _ _ 25 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the tiger | the biggest cat | | Earth | | | tree rules | | 2 | **weigh** | can | Amur and Bengal or a huge male | much | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | | 3 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | infinitive | Amur and Bengal or a huge male *not said here* | | | nose to tail tip | | 3 metres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:019-the-tiger.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The lion: why people call it «king of…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/17/) - next →: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/)