--- title: It spots a hare far below, folds its wings and drops like a stone at… — Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's s… · tree and pragmatics description: It spots a hare far below, folds its wings and drops like a stone at well over 200 kilometres an hour, then swings its talons forward at the last moment. Who acts: mountain. A sentence of the lesson «Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes» of the biology course of M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/323-eagles-golden-eagles-harpy-eagles-stellers-sea-eagles-and-eagle-eyes/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, S…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/323-eagles-golden-eagles-harpy-eagles-stellers-sea-eagles-and-eagle-eyes/) / 3 # Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes, sentence 3 It spots a hare far below, folds its wings and drops like a stone at well over 200 kilometres an hour, then swings its talons forward at the last moment. **Who acts:** mountain · **What happens:** spot, fold, drop, swing · **To what, where:** hare, wings, 200 kilometres, talons 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 (mountain), 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:3 # text = It spots a hare far below, folds its wings and drops like a stone at well over 200 kilometres an hour, then swings its talons forward at the last moment. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spots spot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 6 below below ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 8 folds fold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 18 over over ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:unmarked _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 swings swing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 talons talon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 forward forward ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spot** | present | mountain | | a hare | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hare=Destination | | 2 | **fold** | present | mountain *not said here* | mountain's wings | | | | far *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | | 3 | **drop** | present | mountain *not said here* | | | 200 kilometres a hour | | like a stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory | | 4 | **swing** | present | mountain *not said here* | mountain's talons | | | then; moment | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent talon=Theme | 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:323-eagles-golden-eagles-harpy-eagles-stellers-sea-eagles-and-eagle-eyes.lesson:3`. **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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