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title: Every tiger has its own stripe pattern, and scientists use camera tr… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every tiger has its own stripe pattern, and scientists use camera traps and stripes to recognise and count wild tigers; even the skin under the fur is striped. Who acts: tiger, scientists, male. A sentence of the lesson «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter» of the
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# The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 6

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Every tiger has its own stripe pattern, and scientists use camera traps and stripes to recognise and count wild tigers; even the skin under the fur is striped.

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**Who acts:** tiger, scientists, male · **What happens:** have, use, recognise, count, stripe, pattern · **To what, where:** own stripe pattern, camera traps, wild tigers, skin

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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, scientists, male), 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:6
# text = Every tiger has its own stripe pattern, and scientists use camera traps and stripes to recognise and count wild tigers; even the skin under the fur is striped.
# 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 ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	stripe	stripe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	striped	stripe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **have** | present | every tiger | male's own stripe pattern |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | present | scientists | camera traps and stripes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Patient |
| 3 | **recognise** | to-infinitive | scientists *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **count** | infinitive | scientists *not said here* | wild tigers |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme |
| 5 | **stripe** | present · passive |  | the skin under the fur |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pattern** |  | male |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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