--- title: A cheetah hunts by sight, so it likes a high spot to watch open land… — The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, smal… · tree and pragmatics description: A cheetah hunts by sight, so it likes a high spot to watch open land; it can reach about 100 kilometres per hour, but only for a few hundred metres before it overheats. Who acts: cheetah. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheetah), 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:10 # text = A cheetah hunts by sight, so it likes a high spot to watch open land; it can reach about 100 kilometres per hour, but only for a few hundred metres before it overheats. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cheetah cheetah NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 likes like VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 22 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl 24 per per ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 34 before before SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 overheats overheat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present | a cheetah | | | | | by sight | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by sight=Location | | 2 | **like** | present | cheetah | a high spot | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spot=Theme | | 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | cheetah *not said here* | open land | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 4 | **reach** | can | cheetah | 100 kilometres but a few hundred metres | | | per hour | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme | | 5 | **overheat** | present | cheetah | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. 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