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title: Monkey swings by his tail, but here the film slips: no monkey from A… — Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys · tree and pragmatics
description: Monkey swings by his tail, but here the film slips: no monkey from Asia or Africa can hang by its tail; only some monkeys of Central and South America can. Who acts: Monkey, film. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho
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# Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 3

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Monkey swings by his tail, but here the film slips: no monkey from Asia or Africa can hang by its tail; only some monkeys of Central and South America can.

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**Who acts:** Monkey, film · **What happens:** swing, slip, hang

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» 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 (Monkey, film), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys.lesson:3
# text = Monkey swings by his tail, but here the film slips: no monkey from Asia or Africa can hang by its tail; only some monkeys of Central and South America can.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swings	swing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:compound
32	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **swing** | present | Monkey |  |  |  |  | by monkey's tail | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by tail=Trajectory |
| 2 | **slip** | present | the film |  |  | here |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **hang** | can | no monkey from Asia or Africa |  |  |  |  | by film's tail | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=Location |

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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:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys.lesson:3`.

**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 ×2, 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.

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

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