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title: Cranes really dance, leaping, bowing, flapping and tossing sticks, w… — Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Cranes, sticks, pairs, people. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes» of the biology course
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# Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes, sentence 14

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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.

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**Who acts:** Cranes, sticks, pairs, people · **What happens:** dance, leap, bow, flap, toss, help · **To what, where:** sticks, pairs, Hokkaido

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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 (Cranes, sticks, pairs, people), 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:14
# text = 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.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	dance	dance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Hokkaido	Hokkaido	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **dance** | present | Cranes |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leap** | gerund | Cranes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bow** | gerund | Cranes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **flap** | gerund | Cranes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **toss** | gerund | Cranes *not said here* | sticks |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient |
| 6 | **help** | may | sticks | pairs |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent pair=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 7 | **stay together** | infinitive | pairs *not said here* |  |  |  | year | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **travel** | present | people |  | Hokkaido in Japan |  | winter |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hokkaido=Destination |
| 9 | **watch** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×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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