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title: Leopard rosettes are small and empty in the middle; jaguar rosettes… — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat · tree and pragmatics
description: Leopard rosettes are small and empty in the middle; jaguar rosettes are bigger with spots inside; leopards live in Africa and Asia, jaguars only in the Americas. Who acts: Leopard rosettes, jaguar rosettes, leopards. A sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» of the bio
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# Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 6

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Leopard rosettes are small and empty in the middle; jaguar rosettes are bigger with spots inside; leopards live in Africa and Asia, jaguars only in the Americas.

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**Who acts:** Leopard rosettes, jaguar rosettes, leopards · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** middle, Africa

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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 (Leopard rosettes, jaguar rosettes, leopards), 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:6
# text = Leopard rosettes are small and empty in the middle; jaguar rosettes are bigger with spots inside; leopards live in Africa and Asia, jaguars only in the Americas.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rosettes	rosette	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rosettes	rosette	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
19	leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	jaguars	jaguar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	parataxis	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Leopard rosettes |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Leopard rosettes *not said here* |  |  | the middle |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | jaguar rosettes |  |  |  |  | with spots; big *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | present | leopards |  |  | Africa and Asia |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location |

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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:6`.

**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. **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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