Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures, sentence 1

The peregrine falcon is a missile, the kestrel a helicopter, the sparrowhawk a hedge-hopping ambusher, the osprey a fishing hook and the vulture a flying clean-up crew.

Who acts: peregrine falcon · What happens: be, hop, fly · To what, where: missile

This is a sentence of the lesson «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» 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 (peregrine falcon), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 falcon	det
2	peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falcon	compound
3	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missile	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 missile	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 missile	det
6	missile	missile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kestrel	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kestrel	det
9	kestrel	kestrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missile	appos
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 helicopter	det
11	helicopter	helicopter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kestrel	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sparrowhawk	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sparrowhawk	det
14	sparrowhawk	sparrowhawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missile	appos
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ambusher	det
16	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hopping	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 hedge	punct
18	hopping	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 ambusher	amod
19	ambusher	ambusher	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sparrowhawk	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 osprey	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 osprey	det
22	osprey	osprey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ambusher	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hook	det
24	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hook	compound
25	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ambusher	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 vulture	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 vulture	det
28	vulture	vulture	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hook	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 crew	det
30	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 crew	amod
31	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 up	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 up	punct
33	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crew	compound
34	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hook	nmod:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 missile	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the peregrine falcon	a missile	tree rules
2	hop	gerund			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	gerund			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.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): R6-punct-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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