Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 4

So the next time someone calls them rats with wings, remember they are old partners of people, living in the cliffs we built.

Who acts: someone, you, pigeons, old partners, we · What happens: call, remember, be, live, build · To what, where: pigeons, old partners, cliffs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (someone, you, pigeons, old partners), 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	So	so	ADV	_	12 remember	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remember	obl:unmarked
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 calls	nsubj
6	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 time	acl:relcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 calls	obj
8	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 calls	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 wings	case
10	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rats	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remember	punct
12	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 partners	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 partners	cop
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 partners	amod
16	partners	partner	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 remember	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 people	case
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 partners	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 living	punct
20	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 partners	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 cliffs	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cliffs	det
23	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 living	obl
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 built	nsubj
25	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cliffs	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 remember	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	someone	pigeons = pigeon				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme rat=Result
2	remember	imperative	you not said here			time		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	pigeons = pigeon	old partners			of people	tree rules
4	live	gerund	old partners not said here		the cliffs			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cliff=Location
5	build	past	we	the cliffs not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cliff=Product

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:4.

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 ×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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