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title: Eagles often use the same nest year after year and add sticks each t… — Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eagles often use the same nest year after year and add sticks each time; a bald eagle nest in Florida was reported to weigh about 2 tonnes, as much as a car. Who acts: Eagles. 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 13

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Eagles often use the same nest year after year and add sticks each time; a bald eagle nest in Florida was reported to weigh about 2 tonnes, as much as a car.

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**Who acts:** Eagles · **What happens:** use, add, report, weigh · **To what, where:** same nest, sticks, bald eagle nest, 2 tonnes

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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 (Eagles), 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:13
# text = Eagles often use the same nest year after year and add sticks each time; a bald eagle nest in Florida was reported to weigh about 2 tonnes, as much as a car.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
6	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	weigh	weigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Eagles | the same nest |  |  | year | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Eagles *not said here* | sticks |  |  | time |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient |
| 3 | **report** | past · passive |  | a bald eagle nest in Florida |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **weigh** | to-infinitive |  | 2 tonnes |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=Value |

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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 ×3, 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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