--- title: The tiger is the biggest of all cats; big Amur and Bengal males can… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics description: The tiger is the biggest of all cats; big Amur and Bengal males can weigh about 250 to 300 kilograms and be about 3 metres long with the tail, heavier than most lions. Who acts: tiger, big Amur males. 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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 (tiger, big Amur males), 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:5 # text = The tiger is the biggest of all cats; big Amur and Bengal males can weigh about 250 to 300 kilograms and be about 3 metres long with the tail, heavier than most lions. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 10 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 11 Amur amur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound 14 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 250 250 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 21 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 parataxis _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 35 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the tiger | | | | | of all cats; big *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **weigh** | can | big Amur males | 250 kilograms | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | | 3 | **be about** | infinitive | big Amur males *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/4/) - next →: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/)