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title: Red pandas are not close relatives of giant pandas but a family of t… — The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Red pandas are not close relatives of giant pandas but a family of their own; both eat bamboo and both have a wrist «thumb», evolved separately, and the red panda was called «panda» first. Who acts: Red pandas, both. A sentence of the lesson «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs a
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# The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 9

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Red pandas are not close relatives of giant pandas but a family of their own; both eat bamboo and both have a wrist «thumb», evolved separately, and the red panda was called «panda» first.

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**Who acts:** Red pandas, both · **What happens:** not be, eat, have, evolve, call · **To what, where:** close relatives, bamboo, wrist thumb, red panda · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Red pandas, both), 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:9
# text = Red pandas are not close relatives of giant pandas but a family of their own; both eat bamboo and both have a wrist «thumb», evolved separately, and the red panda was called «panda» first.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	both	both	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	both	both	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
24	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:appos
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
29	evolved	evolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
30	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
38	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
39	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	xcomp	_	_
40	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
41	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	37	advmod	_	_
42	.	.	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Red pandas | close relatives |  |  |  | of giant pandas but a family of flowers's own | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present |  | bamboo |  |  |  | both *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | both | a wrist thumb |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumb=Patient |
| 4 | **evolve** | participle |  | a wrist thumb *not said here* |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | past · passive |  | the red panda |  |  |  | first *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:9`.

**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 ×3, 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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