--- title: Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Tigress and Crane are fighters in the film, and their real animals are just as amazing: a tiger that loves a swim and a bird that da --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes # Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes Lesson 136 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/0/) — Tigress and Crane are fighters in the film, and their real animals are just as amazing: a tiger that loves a swim and a bird that dances in the snow. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/1/) — A bright orange tiger seems easy to spot, but deer cannot tell orange from green, so to them the tiger in the grass looks like dull green leaves with shadows. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/2/) — Walk behind a tiger and you will see a white spot on the back of each black ear, which may help cubs follow their mother through tall grass. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/3/) — Look up in winter and you may see cranes flying with their necks stretched straight out and hear their trumpet calls from kilometres away, made by a windpipe coiled like a trumpet's tube. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/4/) — Deer and wild pigs cannot tell red and orange from green, so to them a tiger's orange coat with black stripes looks dull green and blends into grass and shadows. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/5/) — Tiger stripes are on the skin as well as the fur, so a shaved tiger would still look striped. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/6/) — The South China tiger is a real kind of tiger, but none have been seen in the wild for decades; it survives only in zoos and breeding centres after its forests were cut and many were hunted. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/7/) — Tigers love water: they bathe on hot days, swim strongly, chase prey across rivers and in the Sundarbans mangroves of India and Bangladesh swim between islands. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/8/) — Tigers have bright white spots on the backs of their black ears, which may help cubs follow their mother and send signals. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/9/) — Tigers greet each other with a friendly puffing sound called chuffing, and they cannot purr like a house cat. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/10/) — Wild tiger numbers have risen in countries such as India and Nepal, to around 5,500 worldwide by recent counts, as was reported, thanks to guarding forests, stopping poachers and protecting prey. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/11/) — A tiger needs a large territory, so saving tigers also saves big areas of forest and all the animals in it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/12/) — The red-crowned crane, a symbol of good luck and long life in China and Japan, stands about 1.5 metres tall, and the red patch on its head is bare skin that gets brighter when it is excited. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/13/) — Long legs let cranes wade in marshes and tall grass, and a long bill probes the mud for food. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/14/) — Cranes really dance, leaping, bowing, flapping and tossing sticks, which may help pairs stay together for many years; people travel to Hokkaido in Japan in winter to watch. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/15/) — A crane's windpipe is very long and coiled inside its breastbone like a trumpet's tube, so its call is loud and deep and carries several kilometres. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/16/) — Cranes fly with necks stretched out straight, while herons fly with necks folded back in an S; common cranes, gone from Britain for about 400 years, nest there again after wetlands were restored. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/17/) — Cranes, herons and flamingos often rest on one leg, which loses less heat from a leg tucked into warm feathers and may take little effort. - ← previous: [Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/135-kung-fu-panda-real-giant-pandas-and-red-pandas/) - next →: [Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)