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title: Pairs of red-crowned cranes dance and call in duets and stay togethe… — China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pairs of red-crowned cranes dance and call in duets and stay together for life, and young cranes dance too, maybe as practice. Who acts: Pairs, young cranes. A sentence of the lesson «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» of the biology cours
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# China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders, sentence 15

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Pairs of red-crowned cranes dance and call in duets and stay together for life, and young cranes dance too, maybe as practice.

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**Who acts:** Pairs, young cranes · **What happens:** crown, dance, call, stay together · **To what, where:** duets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Pairs, young cranes), 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:15
# text = Pairs of red-crowned cranes dance and call in duets and stay together for life, and young cranes dance too, maybe as practice.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	dance	dance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	duets	duet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	dance	dance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed hedge=1

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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 | **dance** | present | Pairs of red crowned cranes |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present | Pairs of red crowned cranes *not said here* |  |  | duets |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stay together** | present | Pairs of red crowned cranes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for life; together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dance** | present | young cranes |  |  |  |  | as practice; maybe *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:15`.

**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): R6-punct-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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