--- title: Tigers stalk slowly and quietly, then make a short rush from close b… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a soli… · tree and pragmatics description: Tigers stalk slowly and quietly, then make a short rush from close by, because they are strong but not built for long chases; perhaps only about 1 hunt in 10 succeeds. Who acts: Tigers, you, cubs, 1 hunt. 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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 (Tigers, you, cubs, 1 hunt), 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:9 # text = Tigers stalk slowly and quietly, then make a short rush from close by, because they are strong but not built for long chases; perhaps only about 1 hunt in 10 succeeds. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stalk stalk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 3 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 rush rush NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 nmod _ _ 14 by by ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 chases chase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 hunt hunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nmod _ _ 34 succeeds succeed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stalk** | present | Tigers | | | | | slowly *property* | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | a short rush | | | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset rush=Product from close=Material | | 3 | **is** | present | cubs *= cub* | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **build** | participle | cubs *= cub* *not said here* | | | | | for long chases | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for chase=Asset | | 5 | **succeed** | present | 1 hunt in 10 | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/8/) - next →: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/)