--- title: Clouded leopards can climb down trees head first because their ankle… — The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, smal… · tree and pragmatics description: Clouded leopards can climb down trees head first because their ankles turn backwards, and they have the longest canine teeth for their size of any living cat. Who acts: Clouded leopards, ankles. 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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 (Clouded leopards, ankles), 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:9 # text = Clouded leopards can climb down trees head first because their ankles turn backwards, and they have the longest canine teeth for their size of any living cat. # 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 Clouded cloud VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 leopards leopard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 compound _ _ 7 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 ankles ankle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 13 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 20 canine canine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 27 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **cloud** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **climb down** | can | Clouded leopards | trees head | | | | first *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location head=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | Americas's ankles | | | | | backwards *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | ankles *= ankle* | the longest canine teeth | | | | for Americas's size of any living cat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | 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:9`. **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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