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title: Asian small-clawed otters live in big families and find crabs and sh… — The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Asian small-clawed otters live in big families and find crabs and shellfish by feeling under stones with clever, finger-like paws; otters for cafés and the pet trade are often caught illegally from the wild, which harms wild otters. Who acts: Asian clawed otters. A sentence of the lesson «The Asian 
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# The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 13

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Asian small-clawed otters live in big families and find crabs and shellfish by feeling under stones with clever, finger-like paws; otters for cafés and the pet trade are often caught illegally from the wild, which harms wild otters.

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**Who acts:** Asian clawed otters · **What happens:** claw, live, find, feel, catch, harm · **To what, where:** big families, crabs, stones, otters, wild, wild otters

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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 (Asian clawed otters), 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:13
# text = Asian small-clawed otters live in big families and find crabs and shellfish by feeling under stones with clever, finger-like paws; otters for cafés and the pet trade are often caught illegally from the wild, which harms wild otters.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	clawed	claw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	otters	otter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	shellfish	shellfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
25	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	otters	otter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	cafés	café	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	often	often	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
37	illegally	illegally	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advmod
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	harms	harm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl:relcl	_	_
44	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	otters	otter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | present | Asian clawed otters |  |  | big families |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Location |
| 3 | **find** | present | Asian clawed otters *not said here* | crabs and shellfish |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Topic |
| 4 | **feel** | gerund | Asian clawed otters *not said here* |  |  | stones |  | with clever paws | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent under stone=Location |
| 5 | **catch** | present · passive |  | otters for cafés and the pet trade |  | the wild |  | illegally, often *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from wild=Source |
| 6 | **harm** | present |  | wild otters |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus otter=Experiencer |

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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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**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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