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title: The Andean condor has wings about 3 metres across and glides on risi… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics
description: The Andean condor has wings about 3 metres across and glides on rising air; one was found to fly over 170 kilometres without flapping once. Who acts: Andean condor, one. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 11

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The Andean condor has wings about 3 metres across and glides on rising air; one was found to fly over 170 kilometres without flapping once.

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**Who acts:** Andean condor, one · **What happens:** have, glide, rise, find, fly, flap · **To what, where:** wings, rising air, one, 170 kilometres

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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 (Andean condor, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:11
# text = The Andean condor has wings about 3 metres across and glides on rising air; one was found to fly over 170 kilometres without flapping once.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Andean	andean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	condor	condor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	across	across	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	glides	glide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	amod	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	over	over	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	170	170	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Andean condor | wings  3 metres |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 2 | **glide** | present | the Andean condor *not said here* |  |  | rising air |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Trajectory |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past · passive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **fly** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | 170 kilometres |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **flap** | gerund | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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 ×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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