Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 15
Pigeons often clap their wings together loudly as they take off, and males also clap in display flights.
Who acts: Pigeons, males · What happens: clap, take off · To what, where: wings, display flights
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 (Pigeons, males), 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 | Pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clap | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 clap | advmod |
| 3 | clap | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clap | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 clap | advmod |
| 7 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 clap | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clap | advcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 take | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 clap | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 clap | cc |
| 14 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clap | nsubj |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 clap | advmod |
| 16 | clap | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clap | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 flights | case |
| 18 | display | display | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flights | compound |
| 19 | flights | flight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clap | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clap | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | present | Pigeons | pigeons's wings | loudly, often, together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | |||
| 2 | take off | present | pigeons = pigeon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | clap | present | males | display flights | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flight=Location |
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:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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