The city as a habitat, sentence 7

Peregrine falcons nest on tall buildings like the cliffs they use in the wild and hunt city pigeons; a diving peregrine can go faster than 300 kilometres per hour, the fastest animal on Earth.

Who acts: Peregrine falcons, falcons, diving peregrine · What happens: nest, use, hunt, go · To what, where: tall buildings, cliffs, wild, city pigeons

This is a sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» 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 (Peregrine falcons, falcons, diving peregrine), 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	Peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falcons	compound
2	falcons	falcon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nest	nsubj
3	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 buildings	case
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 buildings	amod
6	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nest	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 cliffs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cliffs	det
9	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buildings	nmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 use	nsubj
11	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cliffs	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 wild	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wild	det
14	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 use	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hunt	cc
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 use	conj
17	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pigeons	compound
18	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hunt	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 peregrine	det
21	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 peregrine	compound
22	peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 use	parataxis
25	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 go	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 kilometres	case
27	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 kilometres	nummod
28	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 go	obl:unmarked
29	per	per	ADP	_	30 hour	case
30	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kilometres	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 animal	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 animal	det
33	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 animal	amod
34	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 peregrine	appos
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 Earth	case
36	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 animal	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 nest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	nest	present	Peregrine falcons		tall buildings like the cliffs		vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	present	falcons = falcon	the cliffs not said here	the wild		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cliff=Patient
3	hunt	present	falcons = falcon not said here	city pigeons			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme
4	go	can	a diving peregrine			than 300 kilometres per hour	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:7.

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. 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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