--- title: Pigeons often clap their wings together loudly as they take off, and… — Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs · tree and pragmatics description: Pigeons often clap their wings together loudly as they take off, and males also clap in display flights. Who acts: Pigeons, males. 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 and the pragmatics of ev --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 15 Pigeons often clap their wings together loudly as they take off, and males also clap in display flights. **Who acts:** Pigeons, males · **What happens:** clap, take off · **To what, where:** wings, display flights 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 (Pigeons, males), 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:15 # text = Pigeons often clap their wings together loudly as they take off, and males also clap in display flights. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 clap clap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 together together ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 7 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 also also ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 clap clap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 display display NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 flights flight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clap** | present | Pigeons | pigeons's wings | | | | loudly, often, together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | | 2 | **take off** | present | pigeons *= pigeon* | | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **clap** | present | males | | | display flights | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flight=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:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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