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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 (Hawaiian honeycreepers, curved beaks, mosquitoes, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:13 # text = Hawaiian honeycreepers all came from one kind of finch and now have many beak shapes, like curved beaks for sipping nectar; many are endangered because mosquitoes spread bird malaria, and many now survive only high in the cold mountains, where mosquitoes do not live well. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hawaiian hawaiian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 honeycreepers honeycreeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 all all ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 finch finch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 now now ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 curved curve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 sipping sip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 22 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:aux:pass 26 endangered endangered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 mosquitoes mosquito NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 malaria malaria NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 nsubj _ _ 35 now now ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obl 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 48 advmod _ _ 45 mosquitoes mosquito NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 46 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 acl:relcl _ _ 49 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 48 advmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Hawaiian honeycreepers | | | one kind of finch | | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from kind=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **have** | present | Hawaiian honeycreepers *not said here* | many beak shapes | | | now | like curved beaks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | | 3 | **curve** | participle | | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 4 | **sip** | gerund | curved beaks *not said here* | nectar | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present · passive | | many | | | | endangered *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **spread** | past | mosquitoes | bird malaria | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location malaria=Theme | | 7 | **survive** | present | many | | | the cold mountains | now | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location | | 8 | **not** **live** | present · do-support | mosquitoes | | | | | well *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:13`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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