--- title: Falcons look like hawks, but DNA, the tiny instructions inside every… — Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures · tree and pragmatics description: Falcons look like hawks, but DNA, the tiny instructions inside every living cell, shows they are closer cousins of parrots and songbirds. Who acts: Falcons, DNA, Looks. A sentence of the lesson «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures, sentence 5 Falcons look like hawks, but DNA, the tiny instructions inside every living cell, shows they are closer cousins of parrots and songbirds. **Who acts:** Falcons, DNA, Looks · **What happens:** look, show, be · **To what, where:** closer cousins · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Falcons, DNA, Looks), 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:5 # text = Falcons look like hawks, but DNA, the tiny instructions inside every living cell, shows they are closer cousins of parrots and songbirds. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Falcons falcon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 hawks hawk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 7 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 instructions instruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 12 inside inside ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 14 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 closer closer ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 songbirds songbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 . . 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 | **look** | present | Falcons | | | | | like hawks | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **show** | present | DNA | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | Looks *= look* | closer cousins | | | | of parrots and songbirds | tree rules | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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