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title: Birds of prey come in many shapes, each made for its own job. — Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures · tree and pragmatics
description: Birds of prey come in many shapes, each made for its own job. Who acts: Birds, many shapes, prey. A sentence of the lesson «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures, sentence 0

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Birds of prey come in many shapes, each made for its own job.

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**Who acts:** Birds, many shapes, prey · **What happens:** come in, make, job · **To what, where:** many shapes, each

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» 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 (Birds, many shapes, prey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.lesson:0
# text = Birds of prey come in many shapes, each made for its own job.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.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	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come in** | present | Birds of prey | many shapes |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle · passive | many shapes *not said here* | each |  |  |  | for prey's own job | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for job=Asset |
| 3 | **job** |  | prey |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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

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