--- title: A vulture's bald head stays cleaner when pushed inside a carcass, an… — Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures · tree and pragmatics description: A vulture's bald head stays cleaner when pushed inside a carcass, and its very strong stomach acid kills most germs in rotten meat. Who acts: bald head, strong stomach acid. A sentence of the lesson «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures/17/) [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/) / [Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vul…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures/) / 17 # Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures, sentence 17 A vulture's bald head stays cleaner when pushed inside a carcass, and its very strong stomach acid kills most germs in rotten meat. **Who acts:** bald head, strong stomach acid · **What happens:** stay, push, kill · **To what, where:** carcass, most germs, rotten meat 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 (bald head, strong stomach acid), 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:17 # text = A vulture's bald head stays cleaner when pushed inside a carcass, and its very strong stomach acid kills most germs in rotten meat. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 vulture vulture NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 cleaner clean ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 xcomp _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 9 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 10 inside inside ADP IN _ 12 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 carcass carcass NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod 18 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 22 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 rotten rotten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . 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 | **stay** | present | a vulture's bald head | | | | | clean *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **push** | participle | a vulture's bald head *not said here* | | | a carcass | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent inside carcass=Trajectory | | 3 | **kill** | present | head's strong stomach acid | most germs | | rotten meat | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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:17`. **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): 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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