Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 13

In a dive the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, reaching more than 300 km per hour, and peregrines nest on tall city buildings, which are high like their wild cliffs and full of pigeons to eat.

Who acts: peregrine falcon, peregrines, tall city buildings · What happens: be, reach, nest, eat · To what, where: fastest animal, dive, 300 km, tall city buildings

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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 falcon, peregrines, tall city 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 dive	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dive	det
3	dive	dive	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 animal	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 falcon	det
5	peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falcon	compound
6	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 animal	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 animal	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animal	det
9	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 animal	amod
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reaching	punct
12	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 animal	advcl
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	15 300	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 more	fixed
15	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 km	nummod
16	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reaching	obj
17	per	per	ADP	_	18 hour	case
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 km	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nest	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 nest	cc
21	peregrines	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nest	nsubj
22	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 km	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 buildings	case
24	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 buildings	amod
25	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 buildings	compound
26	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nest	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 high	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 high	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 high	cop
30	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 buildings	acl:relcl
31	like	like	ADP	_	34 cliffs	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 cliffs	nmod:poss
33	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cliffs	amod
34	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 high	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 pigeons	cc
36	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 high	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 pigeons	case
38	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 buildings	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 eat	mark
40	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 pigeons	acl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 animal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the peregrine falcon	the fastest animal	a dive			tree rules
2	reach	gerund	the peregrine falcon not said here	300 km		per hour		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent km=Theme
3	nest	present	peregrines		tall city buildings and pigeons			vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	tall city buildings and pigeons				like peregrines's wild cliffs; high property	tree rules
5	be		tall city buildings and pigeons not said here					tree rules
6	eat	to-infinitive	peregrines not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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