--- title: The harpy eagle is one of the most powerful eagles on Earth; it hunt… — The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucan… · tree and pragmatics description: The harpy eagle is one of the most powerful eagles on Earth; it hunts sloths and monkeys with back claws as long as a bear's, flying fast between branches on short broad wings. Who acts: harpy eagle, eagle. 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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 (harpy eagle, eagle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:6 # text = The harpy eagle is one of the most powerful eagles on Earth; it hunts sloths and monkeys with back claws as long as a bear's, flying fast between branches on short broad wings. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 156-the-amazon-canopy.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 harpy harpy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 9 advmod _ _ 9 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 29 flying fly VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 30 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 31 between between ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 37 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the harpy eagle | one | | | | of the powerful eagles on Earth | tree rules | | 2 | **hunt** | present | eagle | sloths and monkeys | | | | with back claws | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sloth=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | gerund | eagle *not said here* | | | branches on short broad wings | | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between branch=Location | 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:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:6`. **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): no change. **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 Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagl…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/5/) - next →: [The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagl…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/)