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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (newborn giant panda, mother, babies, China), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:13 # text = A newborn giant panda is tiny, pink and blind and weighs about 100 grams, while its mother is about 900 times heavier, far more than for most mammals, whose babies (like a human baby or a puppy) are much bigger compared with their mothers; China lends pandas to zoos abroad as a sign of friendship. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 newborn newborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 panda panda NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 grams gram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 900 900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 conj _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:appos 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 44 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 much much ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 acl:relcl _ _ 47 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 advcl _ _ 48 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ _ 51 ; ; PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 53 lends lend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 54 pandas panda NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obj _ _ 55 to to ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl _ _ 57 abroad abroad ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 58 as as ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=53:parataxis 61 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ _ 63 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a newborn giant panda | | | | | tiny *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a newborn giant panda *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | a newborn giant panda *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **weigh** | present | a newborn giant panda *not said here* | 100 grams | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value | | 5 | **is** | present | flu's mother | | | | time | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | flu's mother *not said here* | | | | | than most mammals; far *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | babies like a human baby or a puppy | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **compare** | participle | babies like a human baby or a puppy *not said here* | | | | | with babies's mothers | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with mother=Co-Patient | | 9 | **lend** | present | China | pandas | zoos | | | as a sign of friendship | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent panda=Theme to zoo=Recipient | | 10 | **sign** | | | friendship | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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. 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