--- title: So the next time someone calls them rats with wings, remember they a… — Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs · tree and pragmatics description: So the next time someone calls them rats with wings, remember they are old partners of people, living in the cliffs we built. Who acts: someone, you, pigeons, old partners. A sentence of the lesson «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 4 So the next time someone calls them rats with wings, remember they are old partners of people, living in the cliffs we built. **Who acts:** someone, you, pigeons, old partners, we · **What happens:** call, remember, be, live, build · **To what, where:** pigeons, old partners, cliffs · **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 (someone, you, pigeons, old partners), 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:4 # text = So the next time someone calls them rats with wings, remember they are old partners of people, living in the cliffs we built. # 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 So so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 6 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 partners partner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 ccomp _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | someone | pigeons *= pigeon* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme rat=Result | | 2 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | time | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | pigeons *= pigeon* | old partners | | | | of people | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | gerund | old partners *not said here* | | | the cliffs | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cliff=Location | | 5 | **build** | past | we | the cliffs *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cliff=Product | 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:4`. **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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