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title: The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size and of… — The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, smal… · tree and pragmatics
description: The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size and often kills by biting through the skull or a turtle's shell. Who acts: jaguar. 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 de
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# The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 6

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The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size and often kills by biting through the skull or a turtle's shell.

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**Who acts:** jaguar · **What happens:** have, kill, bite · **To what, where:** strongest bite, skull, big cat

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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 (jaguar), 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:6
# text = The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size and often kills by biting through the skull or a turtle's shell.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the jaguar | the strongest bite of any big cat |  |  |  | for jaguar's size | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient |
| 2 | **kill** | present | the jaguar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bite** | gerund | the jaguar *not said here* |  |  | the skull or a turtle's shell |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent through skull=Location |
| 4 | **bite** |  |  | any big cat |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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