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title: Scientists think panda colours help them hide in snow and shade, whi… — Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists think panda colours help them hide in snow and shade, while black ears and eye patches may send signals; each panda's eye patches are a slightly different shape. Who acts: Scientists, panda colours, black ears, eye patches. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and re
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# Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas, sentence 11

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Scientists think panda colours help them hide in snow and shade, while black ears and eye patches may send signals; each panda's eye patches are a slightly different shape.

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**Who acts:** Scientists, panda colours, black ears, eye patches · **What happens:** think, help, hide, send, be · **To what, where:** Scientists, snow, signals, different shape · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas» 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 (Scientists, panda colours, black ears, eye patches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas.lesson:11
# text = Scientists think panda colours help them hide in snow and shade, while black ears and eye patches may send signals; each panda's eye patches are a slightly different shape.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
21	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | present | panda colours | Scientists *= scientist* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | infinitive | Scientists *= scientist* *not said here* |  |  | snow and shade |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in snow=Location |
| 4 | **send** | may | black ears and eye patches | signals |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | each panda's eye patches | a different shape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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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