--- title: There is no single bird called a seagull: there are many kinds of gu… — Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water · tree and pragmatics description: There is no single bird called a seagull: there are many kinds of gull, like the herring gull and the black-headed gull, and many of them live far inland, around rubbish tips, fields and city roofs. Who acts: single bird, many kinds, many. 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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 (single bird, many kinds, many), 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:3 # text = There is no single bird called a seagull: there are many kinds of gull, like the herring gull and the black-headed gull, and many of them live far inland, around rubbish tips, fields and city roofs. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 seagull seagull NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 herring herring NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 headed head VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ _ 32 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 33 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 34 inland inland ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 around around ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=38:cc 42 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no single bird | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | no single bird *not said here* | a seagull | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **does** | present | many kinds of gull like the herring gull and the black headed gull | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **head** | participle | | | | | | | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **live** | present | many of kinds | | | rubbish tips and fields and city roofs | | inland *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around tip=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:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.lesson:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×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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