--- title: Unlike the lion, the tiger lives and hunts alone, slipping through f… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics description: Unlike the lion, the tiger lives and hunts alone, slipping through forest and tall grass, creeping close and low, then rushing its prey in one short burst. Who acts: tiger. 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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), 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:1 # text = Unlike the lion, the tiger lives and hunts alone, slipping through forest and tall grass, creeping close and low, then rushing its prey in one short burst. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Unlike unlike ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 alone alone ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 slipping slip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 13 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 creeping creep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 20 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 rushing rush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 30 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 burst burst NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **live** | present | the tiger | | | | | unlike the lion | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hunt** | present | the tiger *not said here* | | | | | alone *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **slip** | gerund | the tiger *not said here* | | | forest and tall grass | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **creep** | gerund | the tiger *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **rush** | gerund | the tiger *not said here* | tiger's prey | | one short burst | then | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent prey=Theme in burst=Trajectory | 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:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/0/) - next →: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/)