--- title: A lion's tongue is covered with tiny backward hooks that comb its fu… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics description: A lion's tongue is covered with tiny backward hooks that comb its fur and scrape meat off bones, like a house cat's but far rougher. Who acts: tiny backward hooks. 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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 (tiny backward hooks), 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:14 # text = A lion's tongue is covered with tiny backward hooks that comb its fur and scrape meat off bones, like a house cat's but far rougher. # 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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 backward backward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 comb comb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 scrape scrape VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 off off ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 28 rougher rougher ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present · passive | | a lion's tongue | | | | with tiny backward hooks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with hook=Theme | | 2 | **comb** | present | tiny backward hooks | lion's fur and meat | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | | 3 | **scrape** | present | tiny backward hooks *not said here* | | | | | off bones | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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. 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