--- title: Takins gather at places where the ground is full of salt and mineral… — China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, ta… · tree and pragmatics description: Takins gather at places where the ground is full of salt and minerals, because their food has too little salt; over 100 can meet at one lick, and they move up and down the mountains with the seasons. Who acts: Takins, ground, food, 100. 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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 (Takins, ground, food, 100), 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:13 # text = Takins gather at places where the ground is full of salt and minerals, because their food has too little salt; over 100 can meet at one lick, and they move up and down the mountains with the seasons. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Takins takin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gather gather VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 over over SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 lick lick NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 34 up up ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 down down ADP IN _ 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:case 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gather** | present | Takins | | | places | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the ground | | | | | of salt and minerals; full *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | takins's food | little salt | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient | | 4 | **meet** | can | 100 | | | one lick | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **move up** | present | takins *= takin* | | | | season | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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: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 ×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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