--- title: City pigeons come from wild rock doves, which still nest on sea clif… — Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs · tree and pragmatics description: City pigeons come from wild rock doves, which still nest on sea cliffs in places like Scotland and Ireland; buildings and ledges are their cliffs. Who acts: City pigeons, wild rock doves, buildings. 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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 (City pigeons, wild rock doves, buildings), 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:7 # text = City pigeons come from wild rock doves, which still nest on sea cliffs in places like Scotland and Ireland; buildings and ledges are their cliffs. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 City city NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 doves dove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 still still ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 nest nest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 17 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 ledges ledge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 . . 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 | **come** | present | City pigeons | | | wild rock doves | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from dove=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **nest** | present | wild rock doves | | | sea cliffs | still | in places like Scotland and Ireland | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | buildings and ledges | pigeons's cliffs | | | | | 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:7`. **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 ×1, 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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