--- title: Cheetahs cannot roar; they chirp, purr and hiss, and cubs answer the… — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat · tree and pragmatics description: Cheetahs cannot roar; they chirp, purr and hiss, and cubs answer their mother's chirp so she can find them in the grass. Who acts: Cheetahs, kilometres, cubs, bite. 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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 (Cheetahs, kilometres, cubs, bite), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:10 # text = Cheetahs cannot roar; they chirp, purr and hiss, and cubs answer their mother's chirp so she can find them in the grass. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cheetahs cheetah NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 roar roar VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 chirp chirp VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 9 purr purr VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 11 hiss hiss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 14 cubs cub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 answer answer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 chirp chirp NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **roar** | can | Cheetahs | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 2 | **chirp** | present | kilometres *= kilometre* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **purr** | present | kilometres *= kilometre* *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hiss** | present | kilometres *= kilometre* *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | cubs | kilometres's mother's chirp | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent chirp=Eventuality | | 6 | **find** | can | bite | kilometres *= kilometre* | | the grass | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 7 | **chirp** | | kilometres's mother | | | | | | nom chirp «event intransitive»: poss=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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×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. 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