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title: Then it gets up, roars, and the glass seems to shake; a roar can car… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it gets up, roars, and the glass seems to shake; a roar can carry about 8 kilometres on a still night and tells other lions «this land is ours». Who acts: lion, glass, roar, land. A sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc
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# The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 1

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Then it gets up, roars, and the glass seems to shake; a roar can carry about 8 kilometres on a still night and tells other lions «this land is ours».

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**Who acts:** lion, glass, roar, land · **What happens:** get up, roar, seem, shake, carry, tell · **To what, where:** 8 kilometres, other lions, ours · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, glass, roar, land), 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:1
# text = Then it gets up, roars, and the glass seems to shake; a roar can carry about 8 kilometres on a still night and tells other lions «this land is ours».
# 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 ×3
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	roars	roar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	still	still	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	ccomp	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **get up** | present | lion |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **roar** | present | lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | present | the glass |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **shake** | to-infinitive | the glass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **carry** | can | a roar | 8 kilometres |  |  | night |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a roar *not said here* |  | other lions |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this land | ours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 ×3. **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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