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title: Next door a tiger slides into its pool, because tigers come from hot… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics
description: Next door a tiger slides into its pool, because tigers come from hot, steamy forests and love water, and under its fur the skin itself is striped. Who acts: tiger, tigers. A sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its
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# The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 2

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Next door a tiger slides into its pool, because tigers come from hot, steamy forests and love water, and under its fur the skin itself is striped.

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**Who acts:** tiger, tigers · **What happens:** slide, come, love, stripe · **To what, where:** Next door, pool, hot steamy forests, water, skin, fur

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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 (tiger, tigers), 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:2
# text = Next door a tiger slides into its pool, because tigers come from hot, steamy forests and love water, and under its fur the skin itself is striped.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	slides	slide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	steamy	steamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	striped	stripe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **slide** | present | a tiger | Next door |  | tiger's pool |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | present | tigers |  |  | hot steamy forests |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **love** | present | tigers *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stripe** | present · passive |  | the skin  tiger |  | tiger's fur |  |  | 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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