--- title: A brown speckled gull is not a different bird but a young one, and a… — Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water · tree and pragmatics description: A brown speckled gull is not a different bird but a young one, and a big herring gull takes about four years to get its grown-up grey and white feathers. Who acts: brown speckled gull, big herring gull. 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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 (brown speckled gull, big herring gull), 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:4 # text = A brown speckled gull is not a different bird but a young one, and a big herring gull takes about four years to get its grown-up grey and white feathers. # 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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 speckled speckle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 herring herring NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod:poss 27 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:compound 30 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:amod 33 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speckle** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a brown speckled gull | a different bird but a young one | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | present | a big herring gull | | | | year | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | a big herring gull *not said here* | grown grey and gull's feathers | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grey=Stimulus | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.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 ×3. **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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