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description: Giant pandas eat bamboo for up to 14 hours a day, often 12 to 38 kilograms, and digest only a small part, because they are bears whose teeth and gut come from meat-eating ancestors. Who acts: Giant pandas, dumplings, bears. A sentence of the lesson «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, t
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# The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 4

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Giant pandas eat bamboo for up to 14 hours a day, often 12 to 38 kilograms, and digest only a small part, because they are bears whose teeth and gut come from meat-eating ancestors.

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**Who acts:** Giant pandas, dumplings, bears · **What happens:** eat, digest, be, come · **To what, where:** bamboo, small part, bears, eating ancestors

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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 (Giant pandas, dumplings, bears), 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:4
# text = Giant pandas eat bamboo for up to 14 hours a day, often 12 to 38 kilograms, and digest only a small part, because they are bears whose teeth and gut come from meat-eating ancestors.
# 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	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	38	38	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	digest	digest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
30	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	_
38	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	amod	_	_
39	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	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 | **eat** | present | Giant pandas | bamboo |  |  | hour |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient |
| 2 | **digest** | present | Giant pandas *not said here* | a small part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | dumplings *= dumpling* | bears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | present | bears |  |  | eating ancestors |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ancestor=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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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