--- title: DNA studies show falcons are closer relatives of parrots and songbir… — Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures · tree and pragmatics description: DNA studies show falcons are closer relatives of parrots and songbirds than of hawks and eagles; they look alike because they do the same job. Who acts: DNA studies, falcons, studies. 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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 (DNA studies, falcons, studies), 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:10 # text = DNA studies show falcons are closer relatives of parrots and songbirds than of hawks and eagles; they look alike because they do the same 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 falcons falcon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Cmp 7 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 ccomp _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 songbirds songbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hawks hawk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | DNA studies | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | falcons | closer relatives | | | | of parrots and songbirds; than hawks and eagles | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | present | studies *= study* | | | | | alike *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **do** | present | studies *= study* | the same job | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | 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:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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