Birds of prey and owls, sentence 13

The bald eagle has a white-feathered head; its name comes from an old word, balde, meaning white, and young bald eagles are brown all over until about five years old.

Who acts: bald eagle, name, young bald eagles, eagle · What happens: have, come, mean, be, name · To what, where: white feathered head, old word

This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds of prey and owls» 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 (bald eagle, name, young bald eagles, eagle), 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 eagle	det
2	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eagle	amod
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 head	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 head	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 white	punct
8	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 head	amod
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 comes	punct
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	nsubj
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 word	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 word	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 word	amod
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 balde	punct
19	balde	balde	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 word	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 meaning	punct
21	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 has	conj
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meaning	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brown	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 brown	cc
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eagles	amod
26	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eagles	amod
27	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 brown	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 brown	cop
29	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meaning	parataxis
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 over	advmod
31	over	over	ADV	_	29 brown	advmod
32	until	until	ADP	_	35 years	case
33	about	about	ADV	_	34 five	advmod
34	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 years	nummod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 brown	obl
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 years	amod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the bald eagle	a white feathered head				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	come	present	eagle's name		a old word			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location
3	mean	gerund	the bald eagle not said here				white property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	young bald eagles			year	brown, over property	tree rules
5	name		eagle					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:034-birds-of-prey-and-owls.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. 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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