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title: The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size, stron… — The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, smal… · tree and pragmatics
description: The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size, strong enough to crack a turtle's shell, and the clouded leopard can walk down a tree trunk head first like a squirrel. Who acts: jaguar, clouded leopard. A sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats a
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# The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 1

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The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size, strong enough to crack a turtle's shell, and the clouded leopard can walk down a tree trunk head first like a squirrel.

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**Who acts:** jaguar, clouded leopard · **What happens:** have, crack, cloud, walk down, bite · **To what, where:** strongest bite, shell, trunk head, big cat

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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 (jaguar, clouded leopard), 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:1
# text = The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size, strong enough to crack a turtle's shell, and the clouded leopard can walk down a tree trunk head first like a squirrel.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	clouded	cloud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
27	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the jaguar | the strongest bite of any big cat for cat's size |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient |
| 2 | **crack** | to-infinitive | the jaguar *not said here* | a turtle's shell |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme |
| 3 | **cloud** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **walk down** | can | the clouded leopard | a trunk head |  |  |  | like a squirrel; first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bite** |  |  | any big cat for cat's size |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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:1`.

**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, 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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