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title: In the big cats house a lion may lie on a warm rock for your whole v… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics
description: In the big cats house a lion may lie on a warm rock for your whole visit, and that is not laziness: a lion hunts in short, hard bursts, so it saves its strength by resting up to 20 hours a day. Who acts: lion, that, your. A sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» of th
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# The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 0

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In the big cats house a lion may lie on a warm rock for your whole visit, and that is not laziness: a lion hunts in short, hard bursts, so it saves its strength by resting up to 20 hours a day.

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**Who acts:** lion, that, your · **What happens:** lie, not be, hunt, save, rest up, visit · **To what, where:** cats house, laziness, short hard bursts, strength

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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 (lion, that, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.lesson:0
# text = In the big cats house a lion may lie on a warm rock for your whole visit, and that is not laziness: a lion hunts in short, hard bursts, so it saves its strength by resting up to 20 hours a day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	laziness	laziness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	hunts	hunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	bursts	burst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:unmarked	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **lie** | may | a lion |  |  | the cats house |  | on a warm rock; for your whole visit | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | that | laziness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hunt** | present | a lion | short hard bursts |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **save** | present | lion | lion's strength |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 5 | **rest up** | gerund | lion *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **visit** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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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