--- title: The peregrine falcon is a missile, the kestrel a helicopter, the spa… — Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures · tree and pragmatics description: The peregrine falcon is a missile, the kestrel a helicopter, the sparrowhawk a hedge-hopping ambusher, the osprey a fishing hook and the vulture a flying clean-up crew. Who acts: peregrine falcon. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peregrine falcon), 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:1 # text = The peregrine falcon is a missile, the kestrel a helicopter, the sparrowhawk a hedge-hopping ambusher, the osprey a fishing hook and the vulture a flying clean-up crew. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 peregrine peregrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 falcon falcon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 missile missile NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 kestrel kestrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 helicopter helicopter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sparrowhawk sparrowhawk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 hedge hedge NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 hopping hop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 19 ambusher ambusher NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 osprey osprey NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 vulture vulture NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 30 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 amod _ _ 31 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 33 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 crew crew NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:unmarked _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the peregrine falcon | a missile | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hop** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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