--- title: A liger has a lion father and a tiger mother; ligers are bred only i… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics description: A liger has a lion father and a tiger mother; ligers are bred only in zoos and parks, because lions and tigers live in different places in the wild, and ligers grow bigger than both parents. Who acts: liger, lions, ligers. 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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 (liger, lions, ligers), 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:16 # text = A liger has a lion father and a tiger mother; ligers are bred only in zoos and parks, because lions and tigers live in different places in the wild, and ligers grow bigger than both parents. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 liger liger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 ligers liger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 parks park NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 ligers liger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 36 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 xcomp _ _ 37 than than ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 . . 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 | **have** | present | a liger | a lion father and a tiger mother | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | | 2 | **breed** | present · passive | | ligers | | zoos and parks | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | present | lions and tigers | | | different places in the wild | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 4 | **grow** | present | ligers | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:16`. **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. **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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/15/) - next →: [Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the ho…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/)