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title: Giant pandas eat bamboo for many hours a day but digest only a small… — Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their drop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Giant pandas eat bamboo for many hours a day but digest only a small part of it, because their guts are short and made for meat, so they poo dozens of times a day and their droppings smell of fresh bamboo. Who acts: Giant pandas, guts, pandas, droppings. A sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee and smells
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# Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 16

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Giant pandas eat bamboo for many hours a day but digest only a small part of it, because their guts are short and made for meat, so they poo dozens of times a day and their droppings smell of fresh bamboo.

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**Who acts:** Giant pandas, guts, pandas, droppings · **What happens:** eat, digest, be, make, poo, smell · **To what, where:** bamboo, small part, dozens

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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 (Giant pandas, guts, pandas, droppings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.lesson:16
# text = Giant pandas eat bamboo for many hours a day but digest only a small part of it, because their guts are short and made for meat, so they poo dozens of times a day and their droppings smell of fresh bamboo.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	digest	digest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	guts	gut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	poo	poo	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj
32	dozens	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:unmarked	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **eat** | present | Giant pandas | bamboo |  |  | hour |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient |
| 2 | **digest** | present | Giant pandas *not said here* | a small part of part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | pandas's guts |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle | pandas's guts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for meat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for meat=Asset |
| 5 | **poo** | present | pandas *= panda* | dozens of times  a day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **smell** | present | pandas's droppings |  |  |  |  | of fresh bamboo | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of bamboo=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:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.lesson:16`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2. **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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