--- title: A snow leopard's wide, fur-covered paws spread its weight like snows… — The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, smal… · tree and pragmatics description: A snow leopard's wide, fur-covered paws spread its weight like snowshoes so it does not sink; it cannot roar and makes a puffing sound instead. Who acts: wide covered paws, leopard. 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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 (wide covered paws, 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:5 # text = A snow leopard's wide, fur-covered paws spread its weight like snowshoes so it does not sink; it cannot roar and makes a puffing sound instead. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 2 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 fur fur ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 snowshoes snowshoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 so so SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 roar roar VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 puffing puffing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 instead instead ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spread** | present | a snow leopard's wide covered paws | leopard's weight | | | | like snowshoes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location weight=Theme | | 3 | **not** **sink** | present · do-support | leopard | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **roar** | can | leopard | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | leopard *not said here* | a puffing sound | | | | instead *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | 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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