--- title: Tigers love water and swim well; Sundarbans tigers swim between isla… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics description: Tigers love water and swim well; Sundarbans tigers swim between islands in the mangroves of India and Bangladesh and can swim several kilometres. Who acts: Tigers, Sundarbans tigers. 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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 (Tigers, Sundarbans tigers), 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:10 # text = Tigers love water and swim well; Sundarbans tigers swim between islands in the mangroves of India and Bangladesh and can swim several kilometres. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tigers tiger PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 Sundarbans sundarban PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 compound _ _ 9 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 between between ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 mangroves mangrove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Bangladesh Bangladesh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 23 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | present | Tigers | water | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | | 2 | **swim** | present | Tigers *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **swim** | present | Sundarbans tigers | | | the mangroves of India and Bangladesh | | between islands | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between island=Trajectory | | 4 | **swim** | can | Sundarbans tigers *not said here* | several kilometres | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:10`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/9/) - next →: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/)