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title: The red-crowned crane, a symbol of good luck and long life in China… — Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: red crowned crane, red patch, bare skin, patch. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real tiger
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# Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes, sentence 12

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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.

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**Who acts:** red crowned crane, red patch, bare skin, patch · **What happens:** crown, stand, be, get · **To what, where:** bare skin

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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 (red crowned crane, red patch, bare skin, patch), 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:12
# text = 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.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	1.5	1.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked
24	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	xcomp	_	_
39	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	advcl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **crown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the red crowned crane |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the red patch on patch's head | bare skin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | present | bare skin |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present | patch |  |  |  |  | excited *property* | 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): 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.

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