--- title: The grey pigeons on every town square are the grandchildren of wild… — Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs · tree and pragmatics description: The grey pigeons on every town square are the grandchildren of wild rock doves, birds that nest on sea cliffs, and to a pigeon a tall building is simply a cliff with windows. Who acts: grey pigeons, birds, tall building. 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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 (grey pigeons, birds, tall building), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs.lesson:0 # text = The grey pigeons on every town square are the grandchildren of wild rock doves, birds that nest on sea cliffs, and to a pigeon a tall building is simply a cliff with windows. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs.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 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 6 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 grandchildren grandchild NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 doves dove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 nest nest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 simply simply ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **is a** | present | the grey pigeons on every town square | the grandchildren and a cliff | | | | of wild rock doves | tree rules | | 2 | **nest** | present | birds | | | sea cliffs | | | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | a tall building | a cliff | | | | to a pigeon; with windows; simply *property* | tree rules | 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:221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs.lesson:0`. **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. 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