--- title: A great spotted woodpecker drums on dead wood up to about 20 times a… — Forests: woodland through the year and the great… · tree and pragmatics description: A great spotted woodpecker drums on dead wood up to about 20 times a second to mark its territory, and its very long tongue wraps around the back of its skull. Who acts: great spotted woodpecker, long tongue. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great spotted woodpecker, long tongue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:8 # text = A great spotted woodpecker drums on dead wood up to about 20 times a second to mark its territory, and its very long tongue wraps around the back of its skull. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 spotted spot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 woodpecker woodpecker NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 drums drum VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 mark mark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 wraps wrap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 around around ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spot** | participle | | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 2 | **drum up** | present | a great spotted woodpecker | | | | time | on dead wood | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on wood=Patient | | 3 | **mark** | to-infinitive | a great spotted woodpecker *not said here* | woodpecker's territory | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent territory=Destination | | 4 | **wrap** | present | woodpecker's long tongue | | | the back of woodpecker's skull | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around back=Destination | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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