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title: The giant panda is a true bear that eats almost only bamboo, but its… — Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world · tree and pragmatics
description: The giant panda is a true bear that eats almost only bamboo, but its gut is still a meat-eater's gut, so it digests little and must eat for many hours a day; since 2016 it has been listed as vulnerable instead of endangered. Who acts: giant panda, true bear, gut, bear. A sentence of the lesson «Bear
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# Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world, sentence 16

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The giant panda is a true bear that eats almost only bamboo, but its gut is still a meat-eater's gut, so it digests little and must eat for many hours a day; since 2016 it has been listed as vulnerable instead of endangered.

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**Who acts:** giant panda, true bear, gut, bear · **What happens:** be, eat, digest, list · **To what, where:** true bear, bamboo, gut, little, bear

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world» 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 panda, true bear, gut, bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world.lesson:16
# text = The giant panda is a true bear that eats almost only bamboo, but its gut is still a meat-eater's gut, so it digests little and must eat for many hours a day; since 2016 it has been listed as vulnerable instead of endangered.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world.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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	digests	digest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	since	since	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	obl	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	listed	list	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	parataxis	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obl	_	_
47	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	49	case	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	fixed	_	_
49	endangered	endangered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the giant panda | a true bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | a true bear | bamboo |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | bear's gut | a meat eater's gut |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **digest** | present | bear | little |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | must | bear *not said here* |  |  |  | day; hour |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **list** | present · perfect · passive |  | bear |  |  | since 2016 | as vulnerable; instead endangered | tree rules |

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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 ×1, 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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