--- title: The bald eagle has a white-feathered head; its name comes from an ol… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics description: The bald eagle has a white-feathered head; its name comes from an old word, balde, meaning white, and young bald eagles are brown all over until about five years old. Who acts: bald eagle, name, young bald eagles, eagle. 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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 (bald eagle, name, young bald eagles, eagle), 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:13 # text = The bald eagle has a white-feathered head; its name comes from an old word, balde, meaning white, and young bald eagles are brown all over until about five years old. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 feathered feathered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 balde balde NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 22 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 over over ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 until until ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 about about ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 36 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the bald eagle | a white feathered head | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 2 | **come** | present | eagle's name | | | a old word | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **mean** | gerund | the bald eagle *not said here* | | | | | white *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | young bald eagles | | | | year | brown, over *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **name** | | eagle | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:034-birds-of-prey-and-owls.lesson:13`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Birds of prey and owls, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/12/) - next →: [Birds of prey and owls, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/)