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title: Watch the lion lick its paw and you will see your own cat at home: s… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics
description: Watch the lion lick its paw and you will see your own cat at home: same rough tongue, same washing, just two hundred times heavier. Who acts: you, lion. 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 dependency tree an
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# The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 3

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Watch the lion lick its paw and you will see your own cat at home: same rough tongue, same washing, just two hundred times heavier.

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**Who acts:** you, lion · **What happens:** watch, lick, see · **To what, where:** lion, paw, own cat, home

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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 (you, lion), 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:3
# text = Watch the lion lick its paw and you will see your own cat at home: same rough tongue, same washing, just two hundred times heavier.
# 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): no change
1	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	compound	_	_
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the lion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lick** | infinitive | the lion *not said here* | lion's paw |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent paw=Source |
| 3 | **see** | future | you | your own cat |  | home |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus |

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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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**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:3`.

**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): no change. **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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