The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 9
Red pandas are not close relatives of giant pandas but a family of their own; both eat bamboo and both have a wrist «thumb», evolved separately, and the red panda was called «panda» first.
Who acts: Red pandas, both · What happens: not be, eat, have, evolve, call · To what, where: close relatives, bamboo, wrist thumb, red panda · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Red pandas, both), 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 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pandas | amod |
| 2 | pandas | panda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 relatives | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 relatives | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 relatives | advmod |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 relatives | amod |
| 6 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pandas | case |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pandas | amod |
| 9 | pandas | panda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 relatives | nmod |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 family | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 family | det |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pandas | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 own | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 own | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 family | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 eat | punct |
| 17 | both | both | ADV | _ | 18 eat | advmod |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 relatives | parataxis |
| 19 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eat | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 21 | both | both | PRON | PronType=Tot | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 thumb | det |
| 24 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thumb | compound |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 thumb | punct |
| 26 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 thumb | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thumb | punct |
| 29 | evolved | evolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 thumb | acl |
| 30 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 29 evolved | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 called | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 called | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 panda | det |
| 34 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 panda | amod |
| 35 | panda | panda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 called | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 called | aux:pass |
| 37 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 eat | conj |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 39 panda | punct |
| 39 | panda | panda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 called | xcomp |
| 40 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 39 panda | punct |
| 41 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 called | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 relatives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Red pandas | close relatives | of giant pandas but a family of flowers's own | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | present | bamboo | both property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | both | a wrist thumb | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumb=Patient | ||||
| 4 | evolve | participle | a wrist thumb not said here | separately property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | past · passive | the red panda | first property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:9.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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