Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 13

Geese fly in a V to save energy, each riding the upward swirl of air from the bird in front, and they take turns at the front.

Who acts: Geese, each · What happens: fly, save, ride, take · To what, where: V, energy, upward swirl, turns, front

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» 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 (Geese, each), 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	Geese	geese	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fly	nsubj
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 V	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 V	det
5	V	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fly	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 save	mark
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fly	advcl
8	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 save	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swirl	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 riding	nsubj
11	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fly	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swirl	det
13	upward	upward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 swirl	amod
14	swirl	swirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 riding	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 air	case
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swirl	nmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 bird	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swirl	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 front	case
21	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bird	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 take	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
25	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fly	conj
26	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 take	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 front	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 front	det
29	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fly	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	present	Geese		a V		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in v=Location
2	save	to-infinitive	Geese not said here	energy			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
3	ride	gerund	each	the upward swirl of air		from the bird in front	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent swirl=Theme from bird=Trajectory
4	take	present	geese	turns	the front		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent turn=Theme at front=Asset

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:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.lesson:13.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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