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title: The South China tiger is a real kind of tiger, but none have been se… — Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes · tree and pragmatics
description: The South China tiger is a real kind of tiger, but none have been seen in the wild for decades; it survives only in zoos and breeding centres after its forests were cut and many were hunted. Who acts: China tiger, tiger. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes» of the biology
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# Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes, sentence 6

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The South China tiger is a real kind of tiger, but none have been seen in the wild for decades; it survives only in zoos and breeding centres after its forests were cut and many were hunted.

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**Who acts:** China tiger, tiger · **What happens:** be, see, survive, cut, hunt · **To what, where:** real kind, none, wild, zoos, forests

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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 (China tiger, tiger), 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:6
# text = The South China tiger is a real kind of tiger, but none have been seen in the wild for decades; it survives only in zoos and breeding centres after its forests were cut and many were hunted.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound
3	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	survives	survive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
30	centres	centre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:cop
35	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | the China tiger | a real kind |  |  |  | of tiger | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect · passive |  | none |  | the wild | decade |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **survive** | present | tiger |  |  | zoos and breeding centres |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location |
| 4 | **cut** | past · passive |  | tiger's forests |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **hunt** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V» |

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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:6`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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