Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 1

A homing pigeon let out a hundred kilometres from its loft flies back as if it had a map and compass inside its head, and in a way it has.

Who acts: homing pigeon, pigeon · What happens: let out, fly back, have · To what, where: hundred kilometres, loft, map, way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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 (homing pigeon, pigeon), 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 pigeon	det
2	homing	homing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pigeon	compound
3	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flies	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pigeon	acl:relcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hundred	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 kilometres	nummod
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 let	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 loft	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 loft	nmod:poss
11	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obl
12	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 flies	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flies	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 map	det
19	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 compass	cc
21	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 map	conj
22	inside	inside	ADV	_	21 compass	advmod
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 has	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 has	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 way	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	obl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 flies	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let out	infinitive	a homing pigeon not said here	hundred kilometres	pigeon's loft		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme
2	fly back	present	a homing pigeon				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	pigeon	a map and compass		pigeon's head obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Patient
4	have	present	pigeon		a way		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:1.

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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