Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 0

The grey pigeons on every town square are the grandchildren of wild rock doves, birds that nest on sea cliffs, and to a pigeon a tall building is simply a cliff with windows.

Who acts: grey pigeons, birds, tall building · What happens: be, nest · To what, where: grandchildren, sea cliffs, cliff

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» 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 (grey pigeons, birds, tall building), 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 pigeons	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pigeons	amod
3	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grandchildren	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 square	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 square	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 square	compound
7	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pigeons	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grandchildren	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grandchildren	det
10	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 doves	case
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 doves	amod
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 doves	compound
14	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grandchildren	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 birds	punct
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 doves	appos
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 nest	nsubj
18	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 birds	acl:relcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 cliffs	case
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cliffs	compound
21	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 nest	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cliff	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cliff	cc
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 pigeon	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pigeon	det
26	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cliff	obl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 building	det
28	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 building	amod
29	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cliff	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 cliff	cop
31	simply	simply	ADV	_	33 cliff	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cliff	det
33	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grandchildren	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 windows	case
35	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 cliff	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 grandchildren	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the grey pigeons on every town square	the grandchildren and a cliff		of wild rock doves	tree rules
2	nest	present	birds		sea cliffs		vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	a tall building	a cliff		to a pigeon; with windows; simply property	tree rules

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:221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs.lesson:0.

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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