--- title: Tigers usually attack from behind or the side, so Sundarbans honey c… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics description: Tigers usually attack from behind or the side, so Sundarbans honey collectors once wore face masks on the backs of their heads to make a tiger think it was being watched. Who acts: Tigers, Sundarbans honey collectors, 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 (Tigers, Sundarbans honey collectors, 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:11 # text = Tigers usually attack from behind or the side, so Sundarbans honey collectors once wore face masks on the backs of their heads to make a tiger think it was being watched. # 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): no change 1 Tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 attack attack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 behind behind ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 11 Sundarbans Sundarbans PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 compound _ _ 12 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 collectors collector NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 15 advmod _ _ 15 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 masks mask NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 31 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 ccomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attack** | present | Tigers | | | the side | | usually *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wear** | past | Sundarbans honey collectors | face masks | | the backs of collectors's heads | | once *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mask=Theme | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Sundarbans honey collectors *not said here* | a tiger | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | a tiger *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **watch** | past · passive | | side | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:11`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/10/) - next →: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/)