--- title: High in the snowy mountain forests of central China, a troop of monk… — China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, ta… · tree and pragmatics description: High in the snowy mountain forests of central China, a troop of monkeys with golden fur, blue faces and almost no nose huddles together in the snow. Who acts: troop. A sentence of the lesson «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» of the biolo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders/0/) [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/) / [China's mountains: golden snub-nosed m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders/) / 0 # China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders, sentence 0 High in the snowy mountain forests of central China, a troop of monkeys with golden fur, blue faces and almost no nose huddles together in the snow. **Who acts:** troop · **What happens:** huddle · **To what, where:** snow This is a sentence of the lesson «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» 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 (troop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.lesson:0 # text = High in the snowy mountain forests of central China, a troop of monkeys with golden fur, blue faces and almost no nose huddles together in the snow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.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 1 High high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 troop troop NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 almost almost ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 huddles huddle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 together together ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **huddle** | present | a troop of monkeys with golden fur and blue faces and no nose | | | the snow | | almost, together *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snow=Location | 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:378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.lesson:0`. **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. **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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