--- title: Peregrine falcons also crashed because of DDT; people bred and relea… — Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales,… · tree and pragmatics description: Peregrine falcons also crashed because of DDT; people bred and released them, even in cities, where tall buildings are like cliffs and pigeons are their food. Who acts: Peregrine falcons, people, tall buildings. 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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 (Peregrine falcons, people, tall buildings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:6 # text = Peregrine falcons also crashed because of DDT; people bred and released them, even in cities, where tall buildings are like cliffs and pigeons are their food. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Peregrine peregrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 falcons falcon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 crashed crash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 7 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 DDT ddt NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 bred breed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 released release VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 20 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crash** | past | Peregrine falcons | | | | | because DDT | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **breed** | past | people | | | cities | | | tree rules | | 3 | **release** | past | people *not said here* | people | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source | | 4 | **is a** | present | tall buildings | cliffs's food | | | | | tree rules | 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:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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