Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 11

Giant pandas live in cool mountain forests in China and eat mostly bamboo, which has little energy, so they eat for many hours a day; a special wrist bone works like a thumb to grip it.

Who acts: Giant pandas, bamboo, pandas, special wrist bone · What happens: live, eat, have, work, grip · To what, where: cool mountain forests, bamboo, little energy, bone

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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, bamboo, pandas, special wrist bone), 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	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pandas	amod
2	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 forests	case
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 forests	amod
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forests	compound
7	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 China	case
9	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 forests	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eat	cc
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 live	conj
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	13 bamboo	advmod
13	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eat	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bamboo	acl:relcl
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 energy	amod
18	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eat	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 eat	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 live	parataxis
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 hours	case
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hours	amod
25	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eat	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obl:unmarked
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 works	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bone	det
30	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bone	amod
31	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bone	compound
32	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 works	nsubj
33	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 live	parataxis
34	like	like	ADP	_	36 thumb	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 thumb	det
36	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 works	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 grip	mark
38	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 thumb	acl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 grip	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Giant pandas		cool mountain forests in China			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
2	eat	present	Giant pandas not said here	bamboo				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient
3	have	present	bamboo	little energy				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient
4	eat	present	pandas = panda			day; hour		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	work	present	a special wrist bone				like a thumb	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	grip	to-infinitive	a special wrist bone not said here	bone				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:11.

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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