--- title: Tigers have white spots on the backs of their ears, which may help c… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics description: Tigers have white spots on the backs of their ears, which may help cubs follow their mother or look like eyes watching; servals and many other wild cats have them too. Who acts: Tigers, white spots, cubs, eyes. 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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, white spots, cubs, eyes), 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:13 # text = Tigers have white spots on the backs of their ears, which may help cubs follow their mother or look like eyes watching; servals and many other wild cats have them too. # 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 ×1 1 Tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 15 cubs cub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 21 like like SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 25 servals serval NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 31 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 too too ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 . . 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 | **have** | present | Tigers | white spots | | the backs of backs's ears | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 2 | **help** | may | white spots | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | infinitive | cubs | cubs's mother | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | | 4 | **look** | infinitive | white spots *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **watch** | gerund | eyes | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | present | servals and many other wild cats | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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. 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