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title: The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird,… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics
description: The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird, over three metres, and it can lock its wings in place so gliding uses almost no energy. Who acts: wandering albatross, albatross. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing p
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# Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 15

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The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird, over three metres, and it can lock its wings in place so gliding uses almost no energy.

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**Who acts:** wandering albatross, albatross · **What happens:** have, lock, glide, use · **To what, where:** longest wingspan, wings, place, energy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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 (wandering albatross, albatross), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:15
# text = The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird, over three metres, and it can lock its wings in place so gliding uses almost no energy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wandering	wandering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	albatross	albatross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	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	wingspan	wingspan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	lock	lock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
26	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	nsubj	_	_
27	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the wandering albatross | the longest wingspan of any living bird and three metres |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wingspan=Patient |
| 2 | **lock** | can | albatross | albatross's wings |  | place |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 3 | **glide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | present |  | no energy |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |

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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): 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/).

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