--- title: Bird ringing tells scientists where birds travel and how long they l… — How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th… · tree and pragmatics description: Bird ringing tells scientists where birds travel and how long they live; an albatross called Wisdom, ringed in 1956, was still laying eggs at over 70 years old. Who acts: Bird ringing, birds, albatross. 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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 (Bird ringing, birds, albatross), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.lesson:13 # text = Bird ringing tells scientists where birds travel and how long they live; an albatross called Wisdom, ringed in 1956, was still laying eggs at over 70 years old. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ringing ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 6 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 10 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 albatross albatross NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 Wisdom wisdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 19 ringed ring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 1956 1956 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 laying lay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 26 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 over over ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 32 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Bird ringing | scientists | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent scientist=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **travel** | present | birds | | | | | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **live** | present | birds *= bird* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** | participle | | a albatross *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ring** | participle | | a albatross *not said here* | | 1956 | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1956=Location | | 6 | **lay** | past · progressive | a albatross | eggs | | | still; year | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | 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:264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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