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title: In 2016 giant pandas moved from endangered, in great danger of dying… — Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales,… · tree and pragmatics
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# Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 8

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In 2016 giant pandas moved from endangered, in great danger of dying out, to vulnerable, still at risk but less so; China protected bamboo forests and made corridors between them, and there are now about 1,800 or more in the wild.

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**Who acts:** giant pandas, great danger, China, 1,800 · **What happens:** move, die out, protect, make, be · **To what, where:** 2016, bamboo forests, corridors, wild

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» 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, great danger, China, 1,800), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:8
# text = In 2016 giant pandas moved from endangered, in great danger of dying out, to vulnerable, still at risk but less so; China protected bamboo forests and made corridors between them, and there are now about 1,800 or more in the wild.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	endangered	endangered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	corridors	corridor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	between	between	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
38	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
39	now	now	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:advmod
40	about	about	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	1,800	1,800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obl
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **move** | past | giant pandas |  |  | 2016 |  | from endangered; in great danger | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in 2016=Source from endangered=Trajectory in danger=Destination |
| 2 | **die out** | gerund | great danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **protect** | past | China | bamboo forests |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **make** | past | China *not said here* | corridors |  |  |  | between forests *= forest* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corridor=Product |
| 5 | **be** | present | 1,800 |  |  | the wild; there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=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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**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. **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.

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