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title: A crane's windpipe is very long and coiled inside its breastbone lik… — Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes · tree and pragmatics
description: A crane's windpipe is very long and coiled inside its breastbone like a trumpet's tube, so its call is loud and deep and carries several kilometres. Who acts: windpipe, call. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes, sentence 15

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A crane's windpipe is very long and coiled inside its breastbone like a trumpet's tube, so its call is loud and deep and carries several kilometres.

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**Who acts:** windpipe, call · **What happens:** be, carry, call · **To what, where:** breastbone, several kilometres · **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 (windpipe, call), 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:15
# text = A crane's windpipe is very long and coiled inside its breastbone like a trumpet's tube, so its call is loud and deep and carries several kilometres.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	windpipe	windpipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	coiled	coiled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	breastbone	breastbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
25	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
27	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **is** | present | a crane's windpipe |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a crane's windpipe *not said here* |  |  | windpipe's breastbone like a trumpet's tube |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | windpipe's call |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | windpipe's call *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry** | present | windpipe's call *not said here* | several kilometres |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme |
| 6 | **call** |  | windpipe |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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:15`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×3. **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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