Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 13

Long narrow wings are good for gliding, like an albatross's, and broad wings are good for soaring on rising warm air, like an eagle's.

Who acts: Long narrow wings, broad wings · What happens: be, glide, soar, rise · To what, where: rising warm air

This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, nests and flight» of the world 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 (Long narrow wings, broad wings), 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	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wings	amod
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wings	amod
3	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 good	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 gliding	mark
7	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 good	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 albatross	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 albatross	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 albatross	det
11	albatross	albatross	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	obl
12	's	's	PART	_	11 albatross	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 good	cc
15	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wings	amod
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 good	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 good	cop
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 good	conj
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 soaring	mark
20	soaring	soar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 good	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 rising	case
22	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 air	amod
23	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 air	amod
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 soaring	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eagle	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 eagle	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 eagle	det
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 good	obl
29	's	's	PART	_	28 eagle	case
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Long narrow wings		like a albatross; good property	tree rules
2	glide	gerund	Long narrow wings not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	broad wings		like a eagle; good property	tree rules
4	soar	gerund	broad wings not said here	rising warm air		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	rise	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «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:world:073-birds-feathers-nests-flight.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 ×2. 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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