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title: A big body keeps heat in, can live on poor food like twigs and is ha… — Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Dipr… · tree and pragmatics
description: A big body keeps heat in, can live on poor food like twigs and is hard for predators to kill. Who acts: big body. A sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 3

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A big body keeps heat in, can live on poor food like twigs and is hard for predators to kill.

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**Who acts:** big body · **What happens:** keep in, live, be, kill · **To what, where:** heat, poor food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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 (big body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.lesson:3
# text = A big body keeps heat in, can live on poor food like twigs and is hard for predators to kill.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
19	predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **keep in** | present | a big body | heat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | can | a big body *not said here* |  |  | poor food like twigs |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on food=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | a big body *not said here* |  |  |  |  | predators *obl*; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** | to-infinitive | a big body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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