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title: Almost all giant pandas in zoos abroad are lent by China, and cubs b… — The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost all giant pandas in zoos abroad are lent by China, and cubs born there go to China; Edinburgh Zoo had the only giant pandas in Britain from 2011 to 2023. Who acts: China, cubs, Edinburgh Zoo. A sentence of the lesson «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» of t
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# The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 6

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Almost all giant pandas in zoos abroad are lent by China, and cubs born there go to China; Edinburgh Zoo had the only giant pandas in Britain from 2011 to 2023.

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**Who acts:** China, cubs, Edinburgh Zoo · **What happens:** lend, bear, go, have · **To what, where:** giant pandas, cubs, China, only giant pandas, Britain

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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 (China, cubs, Edinburgh Zoo), 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:6
# text = Almost all giant pandas in zoos abroad are lent by China, and cubs born there go to China; Edinburgh Zoo had the only giant pandas in Britain from 2011 to 2023.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	lent	lend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	cubs	cub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **lend** | present · passive | China | all giant pandas in zoos |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | cubs *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go** | present | cubs |  |  | China |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to china=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | Edinburgh Zoo | the only giant pandas |  | Britain |  | from 2011 to 2023 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panda=Patient |

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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:6`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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