--- title: A homing pigeon let out a hundred kilometres from its loft flies bac… — Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultra… · tree and pragmatics description: A homing pigeon let out a hundred kilometres from its loft flies back as if it had a map and compass inside its head, and in a way it has. Who acts: homing pigeon, pigeon. 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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 (homing pigeon, pigeon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:1 # text = A homing pigeon let out a hundred kilometres from its loft flies back as if it had a map and compass inside its head, and in a way it has. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 homing homing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 loft loft NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 inside inside ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let out** | infinitive | a homing pigeon *not said here* | hundred kilometres | | pigeon's loft | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme | | 2 | **fly back** | present | a homing pigeon | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | pigeon | a map and compass | | | | pigeon's head *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | pigeon | | | a way | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:1`. **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 ×2. **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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