Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 8

A pigeon drinks by sucking water up as if through a straw, without tipping its head back like most birds, so it can drink fast and keep watch.

Who acts: pigeon, head · What happens: drink, suck up, tip back, keep · To what, where: water, head, straw, watch

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 (pigeon, head), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drinks	det
2	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinks	nsubj
3	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 sucking	mark
5	sucking	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 drinks	advcl
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sucking	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 sucking	compound:prt
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 tipping	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 tipping	mark
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 straw	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 straw	det
12	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tipping	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 straw	punct
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 tipping	mark
15	tipping	tip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger	5 sucking	advcl
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tipping	obj
18	back	back	ADV	_	15 tipping	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 birds	case
20	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 birds	amod
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tipping	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drink	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 drink	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drink	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 drink	aux
26	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sucking	conj
27	fast	fast	ADV	_	26 drink	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 keep	cc
29	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 drink	conj
30	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 keep	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drinks	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	drink	present	pigeon				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	suck up	gerund	pigeon not said here	water			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source
3	tip back	gerund	pigeon not said here	straw's head	a straw	like most birds	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme through straw=Destination
4	drink	can	head			fast property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	keep	infinitive	head not said here	watch			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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:221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs.lesson:8.

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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