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title: Cranes, herons and flamingos often rest on one leg, which loses less… — Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes · tree and pragmatics
description: Cranes, herons and flamingos often rest on one leg, which loses less heat from a leg tucked into warm feathers and may take little effort. Who acts: Cranes, one leg. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes, sentence 17

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Cranes, herons and flamingos often rest on one leg, which loses less heat from a leg tucked into warm feathers and may take little effort.

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**Who acts:** Cranes, one leg · **What happens:** rest, lose, tuck, take · **To what, where:** one leg, less heat, leg, warm feathers, little effort

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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, one leg), 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:17
# text = Cranes, herons and flamingos often rest on one leg, which loses less heat from a leg tucked into warm feathers and may take little effort.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	herons	heron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
19	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **rest** | present | Cranes and herons and flamingos |  |  | one leg |  | often *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Location |
| 2 | **lose** | present | one leg | less heat |  | a leg |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme from leg=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tuck** | participle |  | a leg *not said here* |  | warm feathers |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into feather=Destination |
| 4 | **take** | may | one leg *not said here* | little effort |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=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:17`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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