--- title: Red kites, with forked tails, nearly died out in Britain, leaving on… — Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures · tree and pragmatics description: Red kites, with forked tails, nearly died out in Britain, leaving only a few pairs in Wales; from 1989 people brought kites in from other countries, and now there are thousands. Who acts: Red kites, people, thousands. 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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 (Red kites, people, thousands), 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:13 # text = Red kites, with forked tails, nearly died out in Britain, leaving only a few pairs in Wales; from 1989 people brought kites in from other countries, and now there are thousands. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 kites kite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 forked fork VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Wales wale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 1989 1989 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 26 kites kite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 34 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 35 expl _ _ 35 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 36 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fork** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **die out** | past | Red kites with forked tails | | | | | in Britain; nearly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in britain=Attribute | | 3 | **leave** | gerund | Red kites with forked tails *not said here* | a few pairs | | Wales | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pair=Theme in wale=Location | | 4 | **bring** | past | people | kites | | 1989 | | from other countries | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent kite=Theme from 1989=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **does** | present | thousands | | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «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. Sentence `school:biology:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.lesson:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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