--- title: Cartoon vultures circle over a lost traveller, waiting, but real one… — Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoon vultures circle over a lost traveller, waiting, but real ones circle to ride warm rising air while they search for animals that are already dead, and without them dead animals rot and spread disease. Who acts: Cartoon vultures, real ones, Looks, animals. 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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 (Cartoon vultures, real ones, Looks, animals), 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:8 # text = Cartoon vultures circle over a lost traveller, waiting, but real ones circle to ride warm rising air while they search for animals that are already dead, and without them dead animals rot and spread disease. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 vultures vulture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 circle circle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 traveller traveller NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 circle circle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 17 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 search search VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 already already ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 31 without without ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod 33 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod:unmarked 35 rot rot NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | Cartoon vultures | | | a lost traveller | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | Cartoon vultures *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **circle** | present | real ones | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **ride** | to-infinitive | real ones *not said here* | warm rising air | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 6 | **rise** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **search** | present | Looks *= look* | | | | | for animals | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for animal=Theme | | 8 | **is** | present | animals | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **rot** | | dead animals | | | | | without Looks *= look* | tree rules | | 10 | **spread** | present | dead animals *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:8`. **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 ×2, 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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