--- title: White storks nested in England again in 2020 for the first time in h… — Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and br… · tree and pragmatics description: White storks nested in England again in 2020 for the first time in hundreds of years, after birds were bred and released; in many countries storks on rooftops are a sign of good luck. Who acts: White storks, storks. 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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 (White storks, storks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.lesson:14 # text = White storks nested in England again in 2020 for the first time in hundreds of years, after birds were bred and released; in many countries storks on rooftops are a sign of good luck. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 nested nest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 parataxis _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 after after SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 28 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 rooftops rooftop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nest** | participle | White storks | | | England | again; time | in 2020; in hundreds of years | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **breed** | past · passive | | birds | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **release** | participle | | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 4 | **is a** | present | storks on rooftops | a sign | | | | of good luck; many countries *obl* | 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:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.lesson:14`. **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): R6-punct-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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