--- title: Tigers greet friends with a soft puffing sound called chuffing, or p… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics description: Tigers greet friends with a soft puffing sound called chuffing, or prusten; they can roar too, but chuffing is for friends. Who acts: Tigers, soft puffing sound, friends, chuffing. 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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, soft puffing sound, friends, chuffing), 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:12 # text = Tigers greet friends with a soft puffing sound called chuffing, or prusten; they can roar too, but chuffing is for friends. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Tigers tiger PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 greet greet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 puffing puffing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 chuffing chuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 prusten prusten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 roar roar VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 chuffing chuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 parataxis _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | Tigers | | friends | | | with a soft puffing sound | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | a soft puffing sound *not said here* | chuffing | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **prusten** | participle | a soft puffing sound *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **roar** | can | friends *= friend* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | chuffing | | | | | for friends | 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:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/11/) - next →: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/)