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title: Stripes break up the tiger's outline, and deer cannot see red and or… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stripes break up the tiger's outline, and deer cannot see red and orange well, so the orange tiger looks greenish to them, like grass. Who acts: Stripes, deer, orange tiger. A sentence of the lesson «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter» of the biology course of Mo
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# The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter, sentence 7

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Stripes break up the tiger's outline, and deer cannot see red and orange well, so the orange tiger looks greenish to them, like grass.

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**Who acts:** Stripes, deer, orange tiger · **What happens:** break up, not see, look · **To what, where:** outline, red

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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 (Stripes, deer, orange 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:7
# text = Stripes break up the tiger's outline, and deer cannot see red and orange well, so the orange tiger looks greenish to them, like grass.
# 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	Stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	outline	outline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	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	2	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	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
24	greenish	greenish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **break up** | present | Stripes | the tiger's outline |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outline=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | deer | red |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | the orange tiger |  |  |  |  | greenish *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:7`.

**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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