--- title: A male pigeon puffs out his neck, coos and turns in circles to show… — Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs · tree and pragmatics description: A male pigeon puffs out his neck, coos and turns in circles to show off to a female; his neck feathers shine green and purple in the light. Who acts: male pigeon, neck feathers. 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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 pigeon, neck feathers), 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:13 # text = A male pigeon puffs out his neck, coos and turns in circles to show off to a female; his neck feathers shine green and purple in the light. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 puffs puff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 coos coo VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 circles circle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 female female NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 shine shine VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **puff out** | present | a male pigeon | Ireland's neck | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location neck=Source | | 2 | **coo** | present | a male pigeon *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | present | a male pigeon *not said here* | | | circles | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory | | 4 | **show off** | to-infinitive | a male pigeon *not said here* | | a female | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to female=Recipient | | 5 | **shine** | present | Ireland's neck feathers | | | the light | | green *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | 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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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