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title: Birds of prey, also called raptors, hunt other animals with sharp ey… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: Birds of prey, also called raptors, hunt other animals with sharp eyes, hooked beaks and gripping feet with curved talons. Who acts: Birds. A sentence of the lesson «Birds of prey and owls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Birds of prey and owls, sentence 0

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Birds of prey, also called raptors, hunt other animals with sharp eyes, hooked beaks and gripping feet with curved talons.

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**Who acts:** Birds · **What happens:** call, hunt, hook, grip, curve · **To what, where:** raptors, other animals, feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds of prey and owls» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:034-birds-of-prey-and-owls.lesson:0
# text = Birds of prey, also called raptors, hunt other animals with sharp eyes, hooked beaks and gripping feet with curved talons.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 034-birds-of-prey-and-owls.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	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
7	raptors	raptor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	hooked	hook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gripping	grip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
20	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	curved	curve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **call** | participle |  | raptors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | Birds of prey and raptors | other animals |  |  |  | with sharp eyes and hooked beaks | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 3 | **hook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grip** | gerund | Birds of prey and raptors *not said here* | feet |  |  |  | with curved talons | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent foot=Experiencer with talon=Instrument |
| 5 | **curve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |

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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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**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:034-birds-of-prey-and-owls.lesson:0`.

**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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