--- title: A pigeon drinks by sucking water up as if through a straw, without t… — Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs · tree and pragmatics description: A pigeon drinks by sucking water up as if through a straw, without tipping its head back like most birds, so it can drink fast and keep watch. Who acts: pigeon, head. A sentence of the lesson «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 8 A pigeon drinks by sucking water up as if through a straw, without tipping its head back like most birds, so it can drink fast and keep watch. **Who acts:** pigeon, head · **What happens:** drink, suck up, tip back, keep · **To what, where:** water, head, straw, watch 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 (pigeon, head), 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:8 # text = A pigeon drinks by sucking water up as if through a straw, without tipping its head back like most birds, so it can drink fast and keep watch. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 sucking suck VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 10 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 without without SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 tipping tip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 27 fast fast ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 30 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **drink** | present | pigeon | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **suck up** | gerund | pigeon *not said here* | water | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | | 3 | **tip back** | gerund | pigeon *not said here* | straw's head | | a straw | | like most birds | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme through straw=Destination | | 4 | **drink** | can | head | | | | | fast *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep** | infinitive | head *not said here* | watch | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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:8`. **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. **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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