--- title: Big cats play with balls, ropes and barrels, especially young ones,… — The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, smal… · tree and pragmatics description: Big cats play with balls, ropes and barrels, especially young ones, because play trains the moves they need for hunting. Who acts: Big cats, play. 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 with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The big cats house: snow leopards, jag…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/) / 15 # The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 15 Big cats play with balls, ropes and barrels, especially young ones, because play trains the moves they need for hunting. **Who acts:** Big cats, play · **What happens:** play, train, need · **To what, where:** young ones, moves 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 (Big cats, play), 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:15 # text = Big cats play with balls, ropes and barrels, especially young ones, because play trains the moves they need for hunting. # 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 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 barrels barrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 especially especially ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case 16 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 trains train VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 moves move NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 . . 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 | **play** | present | Big cats | young ones | | | | with balls and ropes and barrels | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ball=Theme | | 2 | **train** | present | play | the moves | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Theme | | 3 | **need** | present | play | the moves *not said here* | | | | for hunting | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot move=Theme | 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:15`. **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): 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. 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