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title: A black panther is not a separate animal but a dark leopard or jagua… — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat · tree and pragmatics
description: A black panther is not a separate animal but a dark leopard or jaguar, and in bright light you can still see its spots under the black. Who acts: black panther, you. A sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 3

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A black panther is not a separate animal but a dark leopard or jaguar, and in bright light you can still see its spots under the black.

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**Who acts:** black panther, you · **What happens:** not be, see · **To what, where:** separate animal, spots, bright light

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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 (black panther, you), 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:3
# text = A black panther is not a separate animal but a dark leopard or jaguar, and in bright light you can still see its spots under the black.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	black	black	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a black panther | a separate animal but a dark leopard or jaguar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | can | you | leopard's spots |  | bright light | still | under the black | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:3`.

**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): 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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