--- title: The binturong, or bearcat, is an Asian tree animal whose urine smell… — The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas,… · tree and pragmatics description: The binturong, or bearcat, is an Asian tree animal whose urine smells like buttered popcorn because it holds the same chemical, and it has a gripping tail. Who acts: binturong, urine. A sentence of the lesson «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» of the biology cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/11/) [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 Asian forest area: giant pandas, r…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/) / 11 # The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 11 The binturong, or bearcat, is an Asian tree animal whose urine smells like buttered popcorn because it holds the same chemical, and it has a gripping tail. **Who acts:** binturong, urine · **What happens:** be, smell, butter, hold, have, grip · **To what, where:** Asian tree animal, same chemical, gripping tail This is a sentence of the lesson «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» 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 (binturong, urine), 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:11 # text = The binturong, or bearcat, is an Asian tree animal whose urine smells like buttered popcorn because it holds the same chemical, and it has a gripping tail. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 binturong binturong NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 bearcat bearcat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 12 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 urine urine NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nsubj 14 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 buttered butter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 popcorn popcorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 chemical chemical NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 gripping grip VERB VBG VerbForm=Part 30 amod _ _ 30 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a Asian tree animal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **smell** | present | the binturong or bearcat | | | | | like buttered popcorn | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **butter** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hold** | present | urine | the same chemical | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | urine | a gripping tail | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 6 | **grip** | gerund | | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:11`. **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. 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