--- title: White tigers are ordinary Bengal tigers with a rare gene; breeding c… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics description: White tigers are ordinary Bengal tigers with a rare gene; breeding close relatives to get them causes health problems, so good zoos no longer do it. Who acts: White tigers, breeding, good zoos. A sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The big cats house: lions and tigers u…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/) / 12 # The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 12 White tigers are ordinary Bengal tigers with a rare gene; breeding close relatives to get them causes health problems, so good zoos no longer do it. **Who acts:** White tigers, breeding, good zoos · **What happens:** be, breed, get, cause, do · **To what, where:** ordinary Bengal tigers, close relatives, relatives, health problems, tiger 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 (White tigers, breeding, good zoos), 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:12 # text = White tigers are ordinary Bengal tigers with a rare gene; breeding close relatives to get them causes health problems, so good zoos no longer do it. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 parataxis _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 gene gene NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 breeding breed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 13 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 19 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 25 no no ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 27 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | White tigers | ordinary Bengal tigers | | | | with a rare gene | tree rules | | 2 | **breed** | gerund | | close relatives | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | | relatives *= relative* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 4 | **cause** | present | breeding | health problems | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition problem=Patient | | 5 | **do** | present | good zoos | tiger | | | | long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [The big cats house: lions and tigers u…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/11/) - next →: [The big cats house: lions and tigers u…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/)