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title: The red-crowned crane's red cap is bare red skin, not feathers; only… — China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: The red-crowned crane's red cap is bare red skin, not feathers; only a few thousand live in the wild, in wetlands of China, Japan, Korea and Russia. Who acts: red cap, few thousand. A sentence of the lesson «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamande
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# China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders, sentence 14

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The red-crowned crane's red cap is bare red skin, not feathers; only a few thousand live in the wild, in wetlands of China, Japan, Korea and Russia.

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**Who acts:** red cap, few thousand · **What happens:** crown, be, live · **To what, where:** bare red skin, wild

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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 (red cap, few thousand), 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:14
# text = The red-crowned crane's red cap is bare red skin, not feathers; only a few thousand live in the wild, in wetlands of China, Japan, Korea and Russia.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
21	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	wetlands	wetland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **crown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the crowned crane's red cap | bare red skin and feathers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | a few thousand |  |  | the wild |  | in wetlands of China and Japan and Korea and Russia | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=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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**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:14`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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