--- title: An eagle's foot has four talons, three forward and one back, and the… — Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's s… · tree and pragmatics description: An eagle's foot has four talons, three forward and one back, and the back talon is often the biggest and works like a thumb to pin prey. Who acts: foot, one. 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 sc --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes, sentence 7 An eagle's foot has four talons, three forward and one back, and the back talon is often the biggest and works like a thumb to pin prey. **Who acts:** foot, one · **What happens:** have, be, work, pin · **To what, where:** four talons, prey 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 (foot, one), 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:7 # text = An eagle's foot has four talons, three forward and one back, and the back talon is often the biggest and works like a thumb to pin prey. # 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): no change 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 talons talon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ 10 forward forward ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nsubj _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 talon talon NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 thumb thumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 pin pin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a eagle's foot | four talons | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talon=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | one | | | | | big, often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **work** | present | a eagle's foot *not said here* | | | | | like a thumb | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pin** | to-infinitive | a eagle's foot *not said here* | prey | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient | 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:7`. **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): no change. **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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