--- title: Peregrine falcons nest on tall buildings like the cliffs they use in… — The city as a habitat · tree and pragmatics description: Peregrine falcons nest on tall buildings like the cliffs they use in the wild and hunt city pigeons; a diving peregrine can go faster than 300 kilometres per hour, the fastest animal on Earth. Who acts: Peregrine falcons, falcons, diving peregrine. A sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The city as a habitat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/) / 7 # The city as a habitat, sentence 7 Peregrine falcons nest on tall buildings like the cliffs they use in the wild and hunt city pigeons; a diving peregrine can go faster than 300 kilometres per hour, the fastest animal on Earth. **Who acts:** Peregrine falcons, falcons, diving peregrine · **What happens:** nest, use, hunt, go · **To what, where:** tall buildings, cliffs, wild, city pigeons This is a sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» 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 falcons, falcons, diving peregrine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:7 # text = Peregrine falcons nest on tall buildings like the cliffs they use in the wild and hunt city pigeons; a diving peregrine can go faster than 300 kilometres per hour, the fastest animal on Earth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 014-the-city-as-a-habitat.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): R5-strong ×1 1 Peregrine peregrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 falcons falcon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 nest nest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 diving diving NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 peregrine peregrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 25 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 26 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 per per ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 amod _ _ 34 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nest** | present | Peregrine falcons | | | tall buildings like the cliffs | | | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **use** | present | falcons *= falcon* | the cliffs *not said here* | | the wild | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cliff=Patient | | 3 | **hunt** | present | falcons *= falcon* *not said here* | city pigeons | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme | | 4 | **go** | can | a diving peregrine | | | | | than 300 kilometres per hour | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:7`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The city as a habitat, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/6/) - next →: [The city as a habitat, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/)