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title: Birds make no runny urine: their waste comes out as a white paste of… — Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight · tree and pragmatics
description: Birds make no runny urine: their waste comes out as a white paste of uric acid, together with dark poo, from the same opening. Who acts: Birds, waste. A sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, sentence 7

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Birds make no runny urine: their waste comes out as a white paste of uric acid, together with dark poo, from the same opening.

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**Who acts:** Birds, waste · **What happens:** make, come out · **To what, where:** runny urine, same opening

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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 (Birds, waste), 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:7
# text = Birds make no runny urine: their waste comes out as a white paste of uric acid, together with dark poo, from the same opening.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	runny	runny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	urine	urine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	paste	paste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	uric	uric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod
17	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Birds | no runny urine |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent urine=Product |
| 2 | **come out** | present | Birds's waste |  |  | the same opening |  | as a white paste of uric acid with dark poo | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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