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title: The Arctic tern has the longest migration, flying from the Arctic to… — The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals · tree and pragmatics
description: The Arctic tern has the longest migration, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year, about 70000 kilometres, following the summer from one end of the Earth to the other, so it sees more daylight than any other animal. Who acts: Arctic tern, tern. A sentence of the lesson «The big b
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# The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals, sentence 9

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The Arctic tern has the longest migration, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year, about 70000 kilometres, following the summer from one end of the Earth to the other, so it sees more daylight than any other animal.

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**Who acts:** Arctic tern, tern · **What happens:** have, fly, follow, see · **To what, where:** longest migration, 70000 kilometres, Antarctic, Arctic, other, more daylight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arctic tern, tern), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:9
# text = The Arctic tern has the longest migration, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year, about 70000 kilometres, following the summer from one end of the Earth to the other, so it sees more daylight than any other animal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tern	tern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Antarctic	Antarctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	70000	70000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis
41	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	amod	_	_
42	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	than	than	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Arctic tern | the longest migration |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent migration=Patient |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | the Arctic tern *not said here* | 70000 kilometres | the Antarctic | the Arctic | year |  | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from arctic=Initial\_Location to antarctic=Destination |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | the Arctic tern *not said here* |  |  | the other | summer |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent to other=Trajectory |
| 4 | **see** | present | tern | more daylight |  |  |  | than any other animal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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. **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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