--- title: The takin is a big goat relative of the mountains of China and the H… — China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, ta… · tree and pragmatics description: The takin is a big goat relative of the mountains of China and the Himalayas; its oily coat sheds rain and snow, and its big nose warms cold air. Who acts: takin, oily coat, big nose. 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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 (takin, oily coat, big nose), 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:11 # text = The takin is a big goat relative of the mountains of China and the Himalayas; its oily coat sheds rain and snow, and its big nose warms cold air. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 takin takin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Himalayas himalaya PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 oily oily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 sheds shed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 21 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the takin | a big goat relative | | | | of the mountains of China and the Himalayas | tree rules | | 2 | **shed** | present | rain's oily coat | rain and snow | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rain=Source | | 3 | **warm** | present | rain's big nose | cold air | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=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. 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