Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes, sentence 16

Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia have trained golden eagles to hunt foxes and hares for many hundreds of years, and they mostly use females because female eagles are bigger and stronger.

Who acts: Kazakh eagle hunters, golden eagles, Eagles, female eagles · What happens: train, hunt, use, be · To what, where: golden eagles, foxes, females

This is a sentence of the lesson «Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes» 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 (Kazakh eagle hunters, golden eagles, Eagles, female eagles), 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	Kazakh	Kazakh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hunters	amod
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunters	compound
3	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trained	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Mongolia	case
5	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hunters	nmod
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trained	aux
7	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eagles	amod
9	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trained	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hunt	mark
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trained	xcomp
12	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunt	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hares	cc
14	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 foxes	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 hundreds	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hundreds	amod
17	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trained	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 years	case
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hundreds	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 use	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 use	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 use	nsubj
23	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	24 use	advmod
24	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trained	conj
25	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 use	obj
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 bigger	mark
27	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eagles	amod
28	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bigger	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 bigger	cop
30	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 use	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stronger	cc
32	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 bigger	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 trained	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	train	present · perfect	Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia	golden eagles	for many hundreds of years	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme clause=Attribute
2	hunt	to-infinitive	golden eagles not said here	foxes and hares		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme
3	use	present	Eagles = eagle	females	mostly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Patient
4	is	present	female eagles		big property	tree rules
5	be		female eagles not said here			tree rules

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:323-eagles-golden-eagles-harpy-eagles-stellers-sea-eagles-and-eagle-eyes.lesson:16.

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. 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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