--- title: Pumas, also called cougars or mountain lions, chirp, hiss, purr and… — The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, smal… · tree and pragmatics description: Pumas, also called cougars or mountain lions, chirp, hiss, purr and scream but cannot roar; a mountain lion is not a lion. Who acts: Pumas, mountain lion. 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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 (Pumas, mountain lion), 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:13 # text = Pumas, also called cougars or mountain lions, chirp, hiss, purr and scream but cannot roar; a mountain lion is not a lion. # 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): no change 1 Pumas puma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 5 cougars cougar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 xcomp _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 chirp chirp VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 hiss hiss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 purr purr VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 scream scream VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 roar roar VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | Pumas and a lion *not said here* | cougars or mountain lions | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **chirp** | present | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hiss** | present | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **purr** | present | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **roar** | can | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **is a** | present | a mountain lion | a lion | | | | | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.lesson:13`. **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. 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