--- title: Geese fly in a V to save energy, each riding the upward swirl of air… — Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myt… · tree and pragmatics description: Geese fly in a V to save energy, each riding the upward swirl of air from the bird in front, and they take turns at the front. Who acts: Geese, each. 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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 (Geese, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.lesson:13 # text = Geese fly in a V to save energy, each riding the upward swirl of air from the bird in front, and they take turns at the front. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Geese geese NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 V v NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nmod 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 11 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 upward upward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 swirl swirl NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **fly** | present | Geese | | | a V | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in v=Location | | 2 | **save** | to-infinitive | Geese *not said here* | energy | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 3 | **ride** | gerund | each | the upward swirl of air | | | | from the bird in front | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent swirl=Theme from bird=Trajectory | | 4 | **take** | present | geese | turns | | the front | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent turn=Theme at front=Asset | 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:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.lesson:13`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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