--- title: Giant pandas eat almost only bamboo, up to about 12 to 38 kilograms… — Bears · tree and pragmatics description: Giant pandas eat almost only bamboo, up to about 12 to 38 kilograms a day, and grip it with an extra wrist bone that works like a thumb; their teeth and tummy are built like a meat-eater's, and bamboo gives so little energy that they eat for up to about 14 hours a day. Who acts: Giant pandas, extra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Bears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/) / 12 # Bears, sentence 12 Giant pandas eat almost only bamboo, up to about 12 to 38 kilograms a day, and grip it with an extra wrist bone that works like a thumb; their teeth and tummy are built like a meat-eater's, and bamboo gives so little energy that they eat for up to about 14 hours a day. **Who acts:** Giant pandas, extra wrist bone, bamboo, teeth · **What happens:** eat, grip, work, build, give · **To what, where:** bamboo, teeth, little energy This is a sentence of the lesson «Bears» 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, extra wrist bone, bamboo, teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:023-bears.lesson:12 # text = Giant pandas eat almost only bamboo, up to about 12 to 38 kilograms a day, and grip it with an extra wrist bone that works like a thumb; their teeth and tummy are built like a meat-eater's, and bamboo gives so little energy that they eat for up to about 14 hours a day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 023-bears.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pandas panda NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 almost almost ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 5 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 38 38 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ _ 14 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 wrist wrist NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 thumb thumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 38 like like ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 42 eater eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 48 so so ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 51 that that SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 52 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 parataxis _ _ 54 for for ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 55 up up ADV RB Degree=Pos 59 advmod _ _ 56 to to ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 57 about about ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 59 nummod _ _ 59 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl _ _ 60 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=53:obl:unmarked 62 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Giant pandas | bamboo | | | day | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient | | 2 | **grip** | present | Giant pandas *not said here* | bamboo | | | | with a extra wrist bone | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with bone=Instrument | | 3 | **work** | present | a extra wrist bone | | | | | like a thumb | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **build** | present · passive | | kilograms's teeth and tummy | | | | like a meat eater | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **give** | present | bamboo | little energy | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 6 | **eat** | present | teeth *= tooth* | | | | hour | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:023-bears.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Bears, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/11/) - next →: [Bears, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/)