--- title: The bearded vulture eats mostly bones and drops big ones onto rocks… — Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures · tree and pragmatics description: The bearded vulture eats mostly bones and drops big ones onto rocks from high up to crack them. Who acts: bearded vulture. 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 --- [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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures, sentence 19 The bearded vulture eats mostly bones and drops big ones onto rocks from high up to crack them. **Who acts:** bearded vulture · **What happens:** eat, drop, crack · **To what, where:** bones, big ones, rocks 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 (bearded vulture), 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:19 # text = The bearded vulture eats mostly bones and drops big ones onto rocks from high up to crack them. # 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 ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bearded bearded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 vulture vulture NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos 11 onto onto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 nmod _ _ 15 up up ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **eat** | present | the bearded vulture | bones | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 2 | **drop** | present | the bearded vulture *not said here* | big ones | | rocks from high | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme onto rock=Destination | | 3 | **crack** | to-infinitive | the bearded vulture *not said here* | bones *= bone* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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:19`. **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 ×4. **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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