--- title: Real woodpeckers drill holes to nest and to find insects, and drum o… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics description: Real woodpeckers drill holes to nest and to find insects, and drum on wood to call; their skull is built to soften the blows, and they can hit wood about 20 times a second. Who acts: Real woodpeckers, woodpeckers. 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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 (Real woodpeckers, woodpeckers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:16 # text = Real woodpeckers drill holes to nest and to find insects, and drum on wood to call; their skull is built to soften the blows, and they can hit wood about 20 times a second. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.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 ×3 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 woodpeckers woodpecker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drill drill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 nest nest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 10 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 drum drum VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 soften soften VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 blows blow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 32 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 about about ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:amod 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drill** | present | Real woodpeckers | holes | | | | | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | | 2 | **nest** | to-infinitive | Real woodpeckers *not said here* | holes *not said here* | | | | | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | Real woodpeckers *not said here* | insects | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Topic | | 4 | **drum** | present | Real woodpeckers *not said here* | | | | | on wood | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on wood=Patient | | 5 | **call** | to-infinitive | Real woodpeckers *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **build** | present · passive | | woodpeckers's skull | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 7 | **soften** | to-infinitive | | the blows | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | | 8 | **hit** | can | woodpeckers *= woodpecker* | wood | | | time | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Co-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:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:16`. **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 ×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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