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title: Giant pandas live in cool mountain forests in China and eat mostly b… — Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flyi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Giant pandas live in cool mountain forests in China and eat mostly bamboo, which has little energy, so they eat for many hours a day; a special wrist bone works like a thumb to grip it. Who acts: Giant pandas, bamboo, pandas, special wrist bone. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow
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# Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 11

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Giant pandas live in cool mountain forests in China and eat mostly bamboo, which has little energy, so they eat for many hours a day; a special wrist bone works like a thumb to grip it.

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**Who acts:** Giant pandas, bamboo, pandas, special wrist bone · **What happens:** live, eat, have, work, grip · **To what, where:** cool mountain forests, bamboo, little energy, bone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (Giant pandas, bamboo, pandas, special wrist bone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:11
# text = Giant pandas live in cool mountain forests in China and eat mostly bamboo, which has little energy, so they eat for many hours a day; a special wrist bone works like a thumb to grip it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	grip	grip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Giant pandas |  |  | cool mountain forests in China |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | present | Giant pandas *not said here* | bamboo |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | bamboo | little energy |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | present | pandas *= panda* |  |  |  | day; hour |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **work** | present | a special wrist bone |  |  |  |  | like a thumb | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **grip** | to-infinitive | a special wrist bone *not said here* | bone |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:11`.

**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): 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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