--- title: Vultures circle to ride rising warm air and search wide areas; they… — Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures · tree and pragmatics description: Vultures circle to ride rising warm air and search wide areas; they do not attack living people, and when one drops down, others come from far away. Who acts: Vultures, areas, one, others. 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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 (Vultures, areas, one, others), 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:20 # text = Vultures circle to ride rising warm air and search wide areas; they do not attack living people, and when one drops down, others come from far away. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Vultures vulture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 circle circle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp 5 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:xcomp 6 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 search search VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 10 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 attack attack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 17 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 24 down down ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **circle** | present | Vultures | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ride** | to-infinitive | Vultures *not said here* | rising warm air | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 3 | **rise** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **search** | infinitive | Vultures *not said here* | wide areas | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent area=Location | | 5 | **not** **attack** | present · do-support | areas *= area* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **live** | gerund | areas *= area* *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **drop down** | present | one | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **come** | present | others | | | | | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:20`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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