--- title: Only male turkeys gobble, to attract females and warn rivals; wild t… — Ducks, geese and farm myths · tree and pragmatics description: Only male turkeys gobble, to attract females and warn rivals; wild turkeys can fly and run fast, but farm turkeys are bred so heavy that they can hardly fly. Who acts: male turkeys, wild turkeys, turkeys. 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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 (male turkeys, wild turkeys, turkeys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:15 # text = Only male turkeys gobble, to attract females and warn rivals; wild turkeys can fly and run fast, but farm turkeys are bred so heavy that they can hardly fly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.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 ×1 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 2 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 turkeys turkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gobble gobble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 attract attract VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 rivals rival NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 turkeys turkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 19 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 turkeys turkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 33 . . 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 | **gobble** | present | male turkeys | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **attract** | to-infinitive | male turkeys *not said here* | females | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Patient | | 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | infinitive | male turkeys *not said here* | rivals | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rival=Recipient | | 4 | **fly** | can | wild turkeys | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **run** | infinitive | wild turkeys *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **breed** | present · passive | | farm turkeys | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **fly** | can | turkeys *= turkey* | | | | | hardly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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. 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