--- title: Calling pigeons rats with wings is unfair: they have lived alongside… — Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs · tree and pragmatics description: Calling pigeons rats with wings is unfair: they have lived alongside people for thousands of years, and people bred them on purpose. Who acts: Calling, pigeons, people. A sentence of the lesson «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/) / 12 # Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 12 Calling pigeons rats with wings is unfair: they have lived alongside people for thousands of years, and people bred them on purpose. **Who acts:** Calling, pigeons, people · **What happens:** call, be, live, breed · **To what, where:** pigeons rats, pigeons, purpose · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» 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 (Calling, pigeons, people), 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:12 # text = Calling pigeons rats with wings is unfair: they have lived alongside people for thousands of years, and people bred them on purpose. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 3 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 12 alongside alongside ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 bred breed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | gerund | | pigeons rats | | | | with wings | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rat=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | Calling | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | present · perfect | pigeons *= pigeon* | | | | | alongside people; for thousands of years | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme alongside people=Location | | 4 | **breed** | past | people | pigeons *= pigeon* | | purpose | | | 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:12`. **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 ×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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