The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 8

Bamboo flowers and dies all at once every few decades, so pandas need several kinds of bamboo nearby.

Who acts: pandas · What happens: die, need · To what, where: several kinds

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 (pandas), 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	Bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flowers	compound
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 dies	cc
4	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 flowers	conj
5	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 dies	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 decades	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 decades	advmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 decades	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 decades	amod
10	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dies	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 need	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 need	advmod
13	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 need	nsubj
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dies	conj
15	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 kinds	amod
16	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 need	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 bamboo	case
18	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kinds	nmod
19	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	14 need	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flowers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present					decade		tree rules
2	need	present	pandas	several kinds of bamboo				nearby property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme

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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×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.

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