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title: A bright orange tiger seems easy to spot, but deer cannot tell orang… — Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: bright orange tiger, deer, tiger. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes» of the biology course of Mova's 
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# Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** bright orange tiger, deer, tiger · **What happens:** seem, spot, not tell, look · **To what, where:** orange, green, deer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes» 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 (bright orange tiger, deer, tiger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **seem** | present | a bright orange tiger |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spot** | to-infinitive | a bright orange tiger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | deer | orange |  | green |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent orange=Recipient |
| 4 | **look** | present | the tiger in the grass |  | deer |  |  | like dull green leaves with shadows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme |

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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:136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes.lesson:1`.

**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): no change. **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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