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title: Long legs let cranes wade in marshes and tall grass, and a long bill… — Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes · tree and pragmatics
description: Long legs let cranes wade in marshes and tall grass, and a long bill probes the mud for food. Who acts: Long legs, cranes, long bill. 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 c
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# Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes, sentence 13

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Long legs let cranes wade in marshes and tall grass, and a long bill probes the mud for food.

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**Who acts:** Long legs, cranes, long bill · **What happens:** let, wade, probe · **To what, where:** cranes, marshes, mud

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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 (Long legs, cranes, long bill), 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:13
# text = Long legs let cranes wade in marshes and tall grass, and a long bill probes the mud for food.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	wade	wade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	probes	probe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **let** | present | Long legs | cranes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wade** | infinitive | cranes *not said here* |  |  | marshes and tall grass |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in marsh=Trajectory |
| 3 | **probe** | present | a long bill | the mud |  |  |  | for food | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mud=Location for food=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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**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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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