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title: Bar-headed geese fly over the Himalayas, the highest mountains on Ea… — Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flyi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bar-headed geese fly over the Himalayas, the highest mountains on Earth; their blood carries oxygen very well, and they often fly at night or early morning, when the air is cooler and denser. Who acts: headed geese, blood, geese, air. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, 
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# Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 7

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Bar-headed geese fly over the Himalayas, the highest mountains on Earth; their blood carries oxygen very well, and they often fly at night or early morning, when the air is cooler and denser.

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**Who acts:** headed geese, blood, geese, air · **What happens:** fly, carry, be · **To what, where:** Himalayas, oxygen

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (headed geese, blood, geese, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:7
# text = Bar-headed geese fly over the Himalayas, the highest mountains on Earth; their blood carries oxygen very well, and they often fly at night or early morning, when the air is cooler and denser.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.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 ×2
1	Bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	headed	head	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	geese	geese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Himalayas	Himalayas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	cooler	cool	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	denser	dense	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | headed geese |  |  | the Himalayas |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over himalayas=Location |
| 2 | **carry** | present | geese's blood | oxygen |  |  |  | well *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | present | geese |  |  |  | night | often *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the air |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the air *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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