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title: Eagle eyes are about as big as yours, and the back of each eye has f… — Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eagle eyes are about as big as yours, and the back of each eye has far more light-sensing cells than ours and two extra-sharp spots instead of one. Who acts: Eagle eyes, back. A sentence of the lesson «Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes» of the biology course of
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# Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes, sentence 11

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Eagle eyes are about as big as yours, and the back of each eye has far more light-sensing cells than ours and two extra-sharp spots instead of one.

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**Who acts:** Eagle eyes, back · **What happens:** be, have, sense · **To what, where:** more sensing cells

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes» 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 (Eagle eyes, back), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:323-eagles-golden-eagles-harpy-eagles-stellers-sea-eagles-and-eagle-eyes.lesson:11
# text = Eagle eyes are about as big as yours, and the back of each eye has far more light-sensing cells than ours and two extra-sharp spots instead of one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 323-eagles-golden-eagles-harpy-eagles-stellers-sea-eagles-and-eagle-eyes.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
19	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
21	sensing	sense	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:acl
22	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
27	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
31	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	33	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | Eagle eyes |  |  |  |  | as yours; about, big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the back of each eye | more sensing cells and two extra sharp spots instead one |  |  |  | than ours | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient |
| 3 | **sense** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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:323-eagles-golden-eagles-harpy-eagles-stellers-sea-eagles-and-eagle-eyes.lesson:11`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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