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title: Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia have trained golden eagles to hunt… — Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia have trained golden eagles to hunt foxes and hares for many hundreds of years, and they mostly use females because female eagles are bigger and stronger. Who acts: Kazakh eagle hunters, golden eagles, Eagles, female eagles. A sentence of the lesson «Eagles: golden ea
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# Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes, sentence 16

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Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia have trained golden eagles to hunt foxes and hares for many hundreds of years, and they mostly use females because female eagles are bigger and stronger.

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**Who acts:** Kazakh eagle hunters, golden eagles, Eagles, female eagles · **What happens:** train, hunt, use, be · **To what, where:** golden eagles, foxes, females

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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 (Kazakh eagle hunters, golden eagles, Eagles, female 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:16
# text = Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia have trained golden eagles to hunt foxes and hares for many hundreds of years, and they mostly use females because female eagles are bigger and stronger.
# 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
1	Kazakh	Kazakh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	advcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **train** | present · perfect | Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia | golden eagles |  |  |  | for many hundreds of years | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | golden eagles *not said here* | foxes and hares |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | present | Eagles *= eagle* | females |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | female eagles |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | female eagles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): 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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