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title: Every cat in the big cats house is built for its own home: the snow… — The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, smal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every cat in the big cats house is built for its own home: the snow leopard wraps its long furry tail round its face like a scarf, and its wide paws work like snowshoes on mountain snow. Who acts: snow leopard, wide paws. A sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small ca
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# The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 0

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Every cat in the big cats house is built for its own home: the snow leopard wraps its long furry tail round its face like a scarf, and its wide paws work like snowshoes on mountain snow.

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**Who acts:** snow leopard, wide paws · **What happens:** build, wrap, work · **To what, where:** cat, long furry tail

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» 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 (snow leopard, wide paws), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.lesson:0
# text = Every cat in the big cats house is built for its own home: the snow leopard wraps its long furry tail round its face like a scarf, and its wide paws work like snowshoes on mountain snow.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wraps	wrap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	furry	furry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	snowshoes	snowshoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **build** | present · passive |  | every cat in the cats house |  |  |  | for cat's own home | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for home=Asset |
| 2 | **wrap** | present | the snow leopard | cat's long furry tail |  |  |  | round cat's face; like a scarf | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | present | cat's wide paws |  |  |  |  | like snowshoes on mountain snow | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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