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title: A tiger needs a large territory, so saving tigers also saves big are… — Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes · tree and pragmatics
description: A tiger needs a large territory, so saving tigers also saves big areas of forest and all the animals in it. Who acts: tiger, saving. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes, sentence 11

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A tiger needs a large territory, so saving tigers also saves big areas of forest and all the animals in it.

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**Who acts:** tiger, saving · **What happens:** need, save · **To what, where:** large territory, tigers, big areas

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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 (tiger, saving), 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:11
# text = A tiger needs a large territory, so saving tigers also saves big areas of forest and all the animals in it.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
10	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **need** | present | a tiger | a large territory |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot territory=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | gerund |  | tigers |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | present | saving | big areas of forest and all animals in territory |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=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: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 ×2. **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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