--- title: The giant panda sits like a person on a sofa, holds a bamboo stem in… — The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas,… · tree and pragmatics description: The giant panda sits like a person on a sofa, holds a bamboo stem in its paw and munches for up to 14 hours a day, because bamboo gives little energy and its gut, built like a meat-eater's, digests only a small part. Who acts: giant panda, bamboo. 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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 (giant panda, bamboo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears.lesson:0 # text = The giant panda sits like a person on a sofa, holds a bamboo stem in its paw and munches for up to 14 hours a day, because bamboo gives little energy and its gut, built like a meat-eater's, digests only a small part. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 panda panda NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sofa sofa NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 munches munch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 up up ADP IN ExtPos=ADV 24 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP TO _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 43 eater eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 's 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 digests digest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 47 only only ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:obl 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | the giant panda | | | | | like a person on a sofa | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hold** | present | the giant panda *not said here* | a bamboo stem | | panda's paw | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stem=Theme in paw=Location | | 3 | **munch** | present | the giant panda *not said here* | | | | day; hour | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | present | bamboo | little energy and panda's gut | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 5 | **build** | participle | | little energy and panda's gut *not said here* | | | | like a meat eater | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **digest** | present | the giant panda *not said here* | a small part | | | | | tree rules | 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:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears.lesson:0`. **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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