--- title: Put a pigeon feather under a magnifying glass: a shaft in the middle… — Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight · tree and pragmatics description: Put a pigeon feather under a magnifying glass: a shaft in the middle, hundreds of branches called barbs, and on them tiny barbules with hooks that zip together like Velcro. Who acts: you, hundreds, hooks. 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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 (you, hundreds, hooks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.lesson:1 # text = Put a pigeon feather under a magnifying glass: a shaft in the middle, hundreds of branches called barbs, and on them tiny barbules with hooks that zip together like Velcro. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 under under ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 magnifying magnify VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 shaft shaft NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 20 barbs barb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 orphan _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl 25 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 barbules barbule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 zip zip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 together together ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Velcro Velcro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | a pigeon feather | | a magnifying glass | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feather=Theme under glass=Destination | | 2 | **magnify** | gerund | | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **call** | participle | hundreds of branches *not said here* | barbs | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **zip** | present | hooks | | | | | like Velcro; together *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.lesson:1`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/0/) - next →: [Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/)