--- title: A lion needs about 5 to 7 kilograms of meat a day, which would be hu… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics description: A lion needs about 5 to 7 kilograms of meat a day, which would be hundreds of mice, so big cats hunt zebras, antelopes and other large animals. Who acts: lion, day, big cats. 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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 (lion, day, big cats), 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:15 # text = A lion needs about 5 to 7 kilograms of meat a day, which would be hundreds of mice, so big cats hunt zebras, antelopes and other large animals. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 8 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 25 zebras zebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 antelopes antelope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | a lion | 5 kilograms of meat | | | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kilogram=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | would | a day | hundreds | | | | of mice | tree rules | | 3 | **hunt** | present | big cats | zebras and antelopes and other large animals | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zebra=Theme | 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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