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title: The mountains of Sichuan and Shaanxi hold giant pandas, golden monke… — China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: The mountains of Sichuan and Shaanxi hold giant pandas, golden monkeys, takins and many pheasants, and China has set up reserves and green corridors so animals can move between forests. Who acts: mountains, China, animals. A sentence of the lesson «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takin
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# China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders, sentence 21

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The mountains of Sichuan and Shaanxi hold giant pandas, golden monkeys, takins and many pheasants, and China has set up reserves and green corridors so animals can move between forests.

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**Who acts:** mountains, China, animals · **What happens:** hold, set up, move · **To what, where:** giant pandas, reserves, forests

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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 (mountains, China, animals), 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:21
# text = The mountains of Sichuan and Shaanxi hold giant pandas, golden monkeys, takins and many pheasants, and China has set up reserves and green corridors so animals can move between forests.
# 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	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sichuan	Sichuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Shaanxi	Shaanxi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	takins	takin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pheasants	pheasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	reserves	reserve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	corridors	corridor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
32	between	between	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | the mountains of Sichuan and Shaanxi | giant pandas and golden monkeys and takins and many pheasants |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panda=Theme |
| 2 | **set up** | present · perfect | China | reserves and green corridors |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient reserve=Result |
| 3 | **move** | can | animals |  |  | forests |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme between forest=Trajectory |

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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:21`.

**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): no change. **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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