The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 0
The giant panda sits like a person on a sofa, holds a bamboo stem in its paw and munches for up to 14 hours a day, because bamboo gives little energy and its gut, built like a meat-eater's, digests only a small part.
Who acts: giant panda, bamboo · What happens: sit, hold, munch, give, build, digest · To what, where: bamboo stem, paw, little energy, small part
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» 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 panda, bamboo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 panda | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 panda | amod |
| 3 | panda | panda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | nsubj |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sofa | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sofa | det |
| 10 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 person | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 holds | punct |
| 12 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sits | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stem | det |
| 14 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stem | compound |
| 15 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holds | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 paw | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 paw | nmod:poss |
| 18 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holds | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 munches | cc |
| 20 | munches | munch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sits | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 hours | case |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 24 14 | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 up | fixed |
| 24 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 hours | nummod |
| 25 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 munches | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 munches | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gives | punct |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 31 gives | mark |
| 30 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gives | nsubj |
| 31 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sits | advcl |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 energy | amod |
| 33 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gives | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 gut | cc |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 gut | nmod:poss |
| 36 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 energy | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 built | punct |
| 38 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 energy | acl |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 43 eater | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 eater | det |
| 41 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 eater | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 meat | punct |
| 43 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 built | obl |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 eater | case |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 digests | punct |
| 46 | digests | digest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sits | conj |
| 47 | only | only | ADV | _ | 50 part | advmod |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 part | det |
| 49 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 part | amod |
| 50 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 digests | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the giant panda | like a person on a sofa | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | the giant panda not said here | a bamboo stem | panda's paw | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stem=Theme in paw=Location | |||
| 3 | munch | present | the giant panda not said here | day; hour | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | present | bamboo | little energy and panda's gut | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | ||||
| 5 | build | participle | little energy and panda's gut not said here | like a meat eater | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | digest | present | the giant panda not said here | a small part | tree rules |
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, 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:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-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.
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