White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 3

Storks hardly have a voice; they greet each other by throwing their heads back and clattering their bills like a wooden toy.

Who acts: Storks, home · What happens: have, greet, throw back, clatter, bill · To what, where: voice, each, heads, bills

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, home), 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	3 have	nsubj
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 voice	det
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 greet	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 greet	nsubj
8	greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
9	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 greet	obj
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 each	fixed
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 throwing	mark
12	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 greet	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heads	nmod:poss
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 throwing	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	12 throwing	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 clattering	cc
17	clattering	clatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 throwing	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bills	nmod:poss
19	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 clattering	obj
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 toy	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 toy	det
22	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 toy	amod
23	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clattering	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Storks	a voice	hardly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
2	greet speech: greet	present	home	each		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
3	throw back	gerund	home not said here	home's heads		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	clatter	gerund	home not said here	home's bills	like a wooden toy	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bill=Theme
5	bill		home			nom bill «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:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.lesson:3.

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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