Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 11

The Andean condor has wings about 3 metres across and glides on rising air; one was found to fly over 170 kilometres without flapping once.

Who acts: Andean condor, one · What happens: have, glide, rise, find, fly, flap · To what, where: wings, rising air, one, 170 kilometres

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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 (Andean condor, one), 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 condor	det
2	Andean	andean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 condor	amod
3	condor	condor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 3	advmod
7	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 metres	nummod
8	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wings	nmod:unmarked
9	across	across	ADV	_	8 metres	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 glides	cc
11	glides	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 air	amod
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glides	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 found	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	aux:pass
18	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 has	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fly	mark
20	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 found	xcomp
21	over	over	ADV	_	22 170	advmod
22	170	170	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 kilometres	nummod
23	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fly	obl
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 flapping	mark
25	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 fly	advcl
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 flapping	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Andean condor	wings 3 metres			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	glide	present	the Andean condor not said here		rising air		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Trajectory
3	rise	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past · passive		one			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
5	fly	to-infinitive	one not said here	170 kilometres			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	flap	gerund	one not said here			once property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.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 ×2, 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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