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title: Tigers swim well and cool off in pools and rivers; most cats dislike… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics
description: Tigers swim well and cool off in pools and rivers; most cats dislike water, but tigers, jaguars and fishing cats are happy swimmers. Who acts: Tigers, most cats. 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 dependenc
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# The big cats house: lions and tigers up close, sentence 8

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Tigers swim well and cool off in pools and rivers; most cats dislike water, but tigers, jaguars and fishing cats are happy swimmers.

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**Who acts:** Tigers, most cats · **What happens:** swim, cool off, dislike, be · **To what, where:** pools, water, happy swimmers

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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 (Tigers, most 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:8
# text = Tigers swim well and cool off in pools and rivers; most cats dislike water, but tigers, jaguars and fishing cats are happy swimmers.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cool	cool	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dislike	dislike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	jaguars	jaguar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **swim** | present | Tigers |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cool off** | present | Tigers *not said here* |  |  | pools and rivers |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **dislike** | present | most cats | water |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | tigers and jaguars and fishing cats | happy swimmers |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:8`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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