--- title: The arctic tern makes the longest migration of any animal, flying fr… — The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-ye… · tree and pragmatics description: The arctic tern makes the longest migration of any animal, flying from the Arctic to Antarctica and back each year, and in a lifetime it may fly as far as to the Moon and back several times. Who acts: arctic tern, tern, animal. 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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 (arctic tern, tern, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.lesson:16 # text = The arctic tern makes the longest migration of any animal, flying from the Arctic to Antarctica and back each year, and in a lifetime it may fly as far as to the Moon and back several times. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tern tern NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 migration migration NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Arctic Arctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 12 conj _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lifetime lifetime NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 30 as as ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 32 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 35 case _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 back back ADV RB _ 31 conj _ _ 38 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **make** | present | the arctic tern | the longest migration of any animal | | | year | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset migration=Product | | 2 | **fly** | gerund | the arctic tern *not said here* | | Antarctica | the Arctic | | | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from arctic=Initial\_Location to antarctica=Destination | | 3 | **fly** | may | tern | | | a lifetime | time | far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lifetime=Location | | 4 | **migrate** | | any animal | | | | | | nom migration «act intransitive»: of=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](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:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.lesson:16`. **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 ×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 Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads,…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/15/) - next →: [Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, cl…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/)