--- title: Feeding huge crowds of pigeons with bread makes too many pigeons, an… — Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs · tree and pragmatics description: Feeding huge crowds of pigeons with bread makes too many pigeons, and birds packed in crowds spread mess and illness more easily. Who acts: Feeding, birds. A sentence of the lesson «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 14 Feeding huge crowds of pigeons with bread makes too many pigeons, and birds packed in crowds spread mess and illness more easily. **Who acts:** Feeding, birds · **What happens:** feed, make, pack, spread · **To what, where:** huge crowds, many pigeons, birds, crowds, mess 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 (Feeding, birds), 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:14 # text = Feeding huge crowds of pigeons with bread makes too many pigeons, and birds packed in crowds spread mess and illness more easily. # 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 ×2 1 Feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 crowds crowd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 15 packed pack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 crowds crowd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 mess mess NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 23 easily easily ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **feed** | gerund | | huge crowds of pigeons | | | | with bread | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Recipient | | 2 | **make** | present | Feeding | many pigeons | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pigeon=Product | | 3 | **pack** | participle | | birds *not said here* | | crowds | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in crowd=Destination | | 4 | **spread** | present | birds | mess and illness | | | | easily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mess=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs.lesson:14`. **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 ×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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