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title: Only about 5,500 tigers are left in the wild, mostly in India, but w… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only about 5,500 tigers are left in the wild, mostly in India, but with protection their numbers in India and Nepal have grown again. Who acts: numbers. 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 w
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# The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 4

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Only about 5,500 tigers are left in the wild, mostly in India, but with protection their numbers in India and Nepal have grown again.

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**Who acts:** numbers · **What happens:** leave, grow · **To what, where:** 5,500 tigers, wild

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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 (numbers), 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:4
# text = Only about 5,500 tigers are left in the wild, mostly in India, but with protection their numbers in India and Nepal have grown again.
# 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 ×2
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	5,500	5,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present · passive |  | 5,500 tigers |  | the wild |  | in India; mostly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in wild=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | present · perfect | people's numbers in India and Nepal |  |  |  | again | with protection | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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