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title: These are golden snub-nosed monkeys, and in winter they live on lich… — China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: These are golden snub-nosed monkeys, and in winter they live on lichen, bark and buds. Who acts: These, monkeys. 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 with its dependenc
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# China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders, sentence 1

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These are golden snub-nosed monkeys, and in winter they live on lichen, bark and buds.

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**Who acts:** These, monkeys · **What happens:** nose, be, live · **To what, where:** golden nosed monkeys, lichen

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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 (These, monkeys), 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:1
# text = These are golden snub-nosed monkeys, and in winter they live on lichen, bark and buds.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×2
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	snub	snub	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	nosed	nose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	lichen	lichen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct
17	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **nose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | These | golden nosed monkeys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  | lichen and bark and buds | winter |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lichen=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): R2-punct-next ×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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