Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 13

A newborn giant panda is tiny, pink and blind and weighs about 100 grams, while its mother is about 900 times heavier, far more than for most mammals, whose babies (like a human baby or a puppy) are much bigger compared with their mothers; China lends pandas to zoos abroad as a sign of friendship.

Who acts: newborn giant panda, mother, babies, China · What happens: be, weigh, compare, lend, sign · To what, where: 100 grams, pandas, zoos, friendship

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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 (newborn giant panda, mother, babies, China), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 panda	det
2	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 panda	amod
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 panda	compound
4	panda	panda	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tiny	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	cop
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pink	punct
8	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tiny	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blind	cc
10	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tiny	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 weighs	cc
12	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	conj
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 100	advmod
14	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 grams	nummod
15	grams	gram	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 weighs	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heavier	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 heavier	mark
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heavier	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 heavier	cop
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 900	advmod
22	900	900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 times	nummod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heavier	obl:unmarked
24	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 weighs	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 more	punct
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 heavier	conj
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 mammals	case
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 mammals	case
30	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 mammals	amod
31	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 more	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 babies	punct
33	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	34 babies	nmod:poss
34	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 bigger	nsubj
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 baby	punct
36	like	like	ADP	_	39 baby	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 baby	det
38	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 baby	amod
39	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 babies	nmod
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 puppy	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 puppy	det
42	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 baby	conj
43	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 baby	punct
44	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 bigger	cop
45	much	much	ADV	_	46 bigger	advmod
46	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 mammals	acl:relcl
47	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 bigger	advcl
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 mothers	case
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 mothers	nmod:poss
50	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 compared	obl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 lends	punct
52	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 lends	nsubj
53	lends	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	parataxis
54	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 lends	obj
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 zoos	case
56	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 lends	obl
57	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	60 sign	advmod
58	as	as	ADP	_	60 sign	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 sign	det
60	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 lends	obl
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 friendship	case
62	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 sign	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tiny	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a newborn giant panda				tiny property	tree rules
2	be		a newborn giant panda not said here					tree rules
3	be		a newborn giant panda not said here					tree rules
4	weigh	present	a newborn giant panda not said here	100 grams				vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value
5	is	present	flu's mother			time	heavy property	tree rules
6	be		flu's mother not said here				than most mammals; far property	tree rules
7	is	present	babies like a human baby or a puppy				big property	tree rules
8	compare	participle	babies like a human baby or a puppy not said here				with babies's mothers	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with mother=Co-Patient
9	lend	present	China	pandas	zoos		as a sign of friendship	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent panda=Theme to zoo=Recipient
10	sign			friendship				nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:13.

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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