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title: Gulls have many calls; the loud long call with the head thrown back… — Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water · tree and pragmatics
description: Gulls have many calls; the loud long call with the head thrown back claims a territory. Who acts: Gulls, loud long call. A sentence of the lesson «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 15

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Gulls have many calls; the loud long call with the head thrown back claims a territory.

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**Who acts:** Gulls, loud long call · **What happens:** have, throw back, claim · **To what, where:** many calls, head, territory

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» 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 (Gulls, loud long call), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.lesson:15
# text = Gulls have many calls; the loud long call with the head thrown back claims a territory.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.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	Gulls	gull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
15	claims	claim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Gulls | many calls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient |
| 2 | **throw back** | participle |  | the head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | the loud long call with the head | a territory |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent territory=Topic |

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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.

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**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:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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