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title: Asian forests have great hornbills, peacocks and golden pheasants; p… — The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Asian forests have great hornbills, peacocks and golden pheasants; peahens choose males with the best tails of eye spots, and a peacock grows a new tail every year. Who acts: Asian forests, peahens, peacock. A sentence of the lesson «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun be
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# The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 14

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Asian forests have great hornbills, peacocks and golden pheasants; peahens choose males with the best tails of eye spots, and a peacock grows a new tail every year.

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**Who acts:** Asian forests, peahens, peacock · **What happens:** have, choose, grow · **To what, where:** great hornbills, males, new tail

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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 forests, peahens, peacock), 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:14
# text = Asian forests have great hornbills, peacocks and golden pheasants; peahens choose males with the best tails of eye spots, and a peacock grows a new tail every year.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hornbills	hornbill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
9	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pheasants	pheasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	peahens	peahen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Asian forests | great hornbills and peacocks and golden pheasants |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hornbill=Patient |
| 2 | **choose** | present | peahens | males |  |  |  | with the best tails of eye spots | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent male=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | present | a peacock | a new tail |  |  | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme |

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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:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears.lesson:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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