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title: Tigers greet each other with a friendly puffing sound called chuffin… — Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes · tree and pragmatics
description: Tigers greet each other with a friendly puffing sound called chuffing, and they cannot purr like a house cat. Who acts: Tigers, friendly puffing sound, forests. 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 an
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# Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes, sentence 9

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Tigers greet each other with a friendly puffing sound called chuffing, and they cannot purr like a house cat.

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**Who acts:** Tigers, friendly puffing sound, forests · **What happens:** greet, call, not purr · **To what, where:** each, chuffing · **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 (Tigers, friendly puffing sound, forests), 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:9
# text = Tigers greet each other with a friendly puffing sound called chuffing, and they cannot purr like a house cat.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Tigers	tiger	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	2	obj	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	fixed	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	puffing	puffing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
11	chuffing	chuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	purr	purr	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | Tigers | each |  |  |  | with a friendly puffing sound | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a friendly puffing sound *not said here* | chuffing |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **purr** | can | forests *= forest* |  |  |  |  | like a house cat | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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**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:9`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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