--- title: Big cats are kept behind strong mesh, thick glass or a wide ditch ca… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics description: Big cats are kept behind strong mesh, thick glass or a wide ditch called a moat, and keepers never go in with them. Who acts: wide ditch, keepers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wide ditch, keepers), 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:13 # text = Big cats are kept behind strong mesh, thick glass or a wide ditch called a moat, and keepers never go in with them. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 behind behind ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 mesh mesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 ditch ditch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 moat moat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 in in ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present · passive | | Big cats | | strong mesh and thick glass or a wide ditch | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme behind mesh=Location | | 2 | **call** | participle | a wide ditch *not said here* | a moat | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **go in** | present | keepers | | | | | with mesh | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | 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:13`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The big cats house: lions and tigers u…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/12/) - next →: [The big cats house: lions and tigers u…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/)