Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures, sentence 2

Picture a kestrel over a motorway verge: it faces the wind, flaps fast and holds its head perfectly still while it watches the grass for a vole.

Who acts: you, kestrel · What happens: picture, face, flap, hold, watch · To what, where: kestrel, motorway verge, wind, head, grass

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 (you, kestrel), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kestrel	det
3	kestrel	kestrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	7 verge	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 verge	det
6	motorway	motorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 verge	compound
7	verge	verge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 faces	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 faces	nsubj
10	faces	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 faces	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flaps	punct
14	flaps	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 faces	conj
15	fast	fast	ADV	_	14 flaps	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 holds	cc
17	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 faces	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 holds	obj
20	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	17 holds	advmod
21	still	still	ADV	_	17 holds	advmod
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 watches	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 watches	nsubj
24	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 holds	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 grass	det
26	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 watches	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 vole	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 vole	det
29	vole	vole	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 watches	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a kestrel	a motorway verge			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kestrel=Theme
2	face	present	kestrel	the wind				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wind=Destination
3	flap	present	kestrel not said here				fast property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hold	present	kestrel not said here	kestrel's head		still	perfectly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	watch	present	kestrel	the grass			for a vole	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent grass=Location for vole=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:2.

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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