--- title: There are about 40 kinds of wild cats, and most are small, like the… — The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, smal… · tree and pragmatics description: There are about 40 kinds of wild cats, and most are small, like the swamp-hunting fishing cat with slightly webbed feet and the desert sand cat, whose hairy paws stop its feet burning on hot sand. Who acts: 40 kinds, most, hairy paws, feet. 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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 (40 kinds, most, hairy paws, feet), 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:14 # text = There are about 40 kinds of wild cats, and most are small, like the swamp-hunting fishing cat with slightly webbed feet and the desert sand cat, whose hairy paws stop its feet burning on hot sand. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 17 swamp swamp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 webbed web VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 hairy hairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 acl _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **be about** | present | 40 kinds of wild cats | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | most | | | | | like the hunting fishing cat with webbed feet and the desert sand cat; small *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **web** | participle | | | | | | slightly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **stop** | present | hairy paws | cat's feet | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality foot=Eventuality | | 5 | **burn** | gerund | cat's feet *not said here* | | | hot sand | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location | 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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