City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings, sentence 14

Peregrine falcons nest on tall buildings, bridges and churches that look like cliffs to them, eat mostly city pigeons, and in a hunting dive can go over 300 kilometres an hour, the fastest animal on Earth.

Who acts: Peregrine falcons, tall buildings · What happens: nest, look, eat, go over · To what, where: tall buildings, cliffs, city pigeons, 300 kilometres, hunting dive

This is a sentence of the lesson «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings» 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 falcons, tall buildings), 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	Peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falcons	compound
2	falcons	falcon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nest	nsubj
3	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 buildings	case
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 buildings	amod
6	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nest	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bridges	punct
8	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buildings	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 churches	cc
10	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buildings	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 look	nsubj
12	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 buildings	acl:relcl
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 cliffs	case
14	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 look	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nest	conj
19	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	21 pigeons	advmod
20	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pigeons	compound
21	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 go	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 dive	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dive	det
26	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dive	compound
27	dive	dive	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 go	aux
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 eat	conj
30	over	over	ADV	_	31 300	advmod
31	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 kilometres	nummod
32	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 go	obj
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hour	det
34	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kilometres	nmod:unmarked
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 animal	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 animal	det
37	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 animal	amod
38	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	parataxis
39	on	on	ADP	_	40 Earth	case
40	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 animal	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 nest	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	nest	present	Peregrine falcons			tall buildings and bridges and churches		vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	present	tall buildings and bridges and churches		cliffs = cliff		like cliffs	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
3	eat	present	Peregrine falcons not said here	city pigeons				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Patient
4	go over	can	Peregrine falcons not said here	300 kilometres a hour		a hunting dive		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=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:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings.lesson:14.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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