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title: To us a tiger is bright orange, but deer cannot see red and orange w… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics
description: To us a tiger is bright orange, but deer cannot see red and orange well, so to them the striped tiger looks greenish and melts into the grass and shadows. Who acts: tiger, deer, striped tiger. A sentence of the lesson «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter» of the b
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# The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 2

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To us a tiger is bright orange, but deer cannot see red and orange well, so to them the striped tiger looks greenish and melts into the grass and shadows.

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**Who acts:** tiger, deer, striped tiger · **What happens:** be, not see, look, melt · **To what, where:** us, red, deer, grass

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiger, deer, striped 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:2
# text = To us a tiger is bright orange, but deer cannot see red and orange well, so to them the striped tiger looks greenish and melts into the grass and shadows.
# 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	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	striped	striped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
26	greenish	greenish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a tiger |  | us |  |  | orange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | deer | red |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | the striped tiger |  | deer |  |  | greenish *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to they=Experiencer |
| 4 | **melt** | present | the striped tiger *not said here* |  |  | the grass and shadows |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into grass=Product |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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/).

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