White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 1

Storks come back to the same nest year after year and add new sticks, so old nests grow huge.

Who acts: Storks, old nests · What happens: come back, add, grow · To what, where: new sticks

This is a sentence of the lesson «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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 (Storks, old nests), 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	Storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 come	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nest	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nest	amod
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 year	compound
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 year	case
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 add	cc
12	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	conj
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sticks	amod
14	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 add	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grow	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 grow	advmod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nests	amod
18	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grow	nsubj
19	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	conj
20	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grow	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	Storks		year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	add speech: assert	present	Storks not said here	new sticks			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
3	grow	present	old nests			huge property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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