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title: Pandas have an enlarged wrist bone that works like a thumb to grip b… — Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas · tree and pragmatics
description: Pandas have an enlarged wrist bone that works like a thumb to grip bamboo, often called the panda's thumb, though it is not a true thumb. Who acts: Pandas, enlarged wrist bone, panda. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas» of the biology course of Mova's primary s
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# Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas, sentence 6

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Pandas have an enlarged wrist bone that works like a thumb to grip bamboo, often called the panda's thumb, though it is not a true thumb.

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**Who acts:** Pandas, enlarged wrist bone, panda · **What happens:** have, enlarge, work, grip, call, not be · **To what, where:** enlarged wrist bone, bamboo, thumb, true thumb · **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 (Pandas, enlarged wrist bone, panda), 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:6
# text = Pandas have an enlarged wrist bone that works like a thumb to grip bamboo, often called the panda's thumb, though it is not a true thumb.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	enlarged	enlarge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	grip	grip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Pandas | a enlarged wrist bone |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **enlarge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **work** | present | a enlarged wrist bone |  |  |  |  | like a thumb | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grip** | to-infinitive | a enlarged wrist bone *not said here* | bamboo |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Experiencer |
| 5 | **call** | participle | a enlarged wrist bone *not said here* | the panda's thumb |  |  |  | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | present | panda | a true thumb |  |  |  |  | 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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**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.

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

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