--- title: Wild giant pandas live only in the mountains of China; since the 198… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics description: Wild giant pandas live only in the mountains of China; since the 1980s zoos abroad usually rent pandas from China instead of receiving them as gifts, and cubs born abroad are usually sent to China. Who acts: Wild giant pandas, zoos. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wild giant pandas, zoos), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:19 # text = Wild giant pandas live only in the mountains of China; since the 1980s zoos abroad usually rent pandas from China instead of receiving them as gifts, and cubs born abroad are usually sent to China. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pandas panda NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 12 since since ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 1980s 1980s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound 15 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 abroad abroad ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 usually usually ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 rent rent VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 19 pandas panda NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 instead instead ADV RB _ 24 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod 23 of of SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 receiving receive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 cubs cub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 abroad abroad ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 34 usually usually ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Wild giant pandas | | | the mountains of China | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location | | 2 | **rent** | present | zoos | the 1980s | | China | | usually *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent panda=Theme from china=Source | | 3 | **receive** | gerund | zoos *not said here* | pandas *= panda* | | | | as gifts | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **bear** | participle | | cubs *not said here* | | | | abroad *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **send** | present · passive | | cubs | China | | | usually *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to china=Destination | 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. **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:history:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:19`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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