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title: Harris's hawks hunt in family groups, which is rare for birds of pre… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: Harris's hawks hunt in family groups, which is rare for birds of prey, and they are often trained by falconers. Who acts: hawks, family groups, falconers. 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 e
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# Birds of prey and owls, sentence 15

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Harris's hawks hunt in family groups, which is rare for birds of prey, and they are often trained by falconers.

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**Who acts:** hawks, family groups, falconers · **What happens:** hunt, be, train · **To what, where:** family groups, hawks

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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 (hawks, family groups, falconers), 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:15
# text = Harris's hawks hunt in family groups, which is rare for birds of prey, and they are often trained by falconers.
# 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	Harris	Harris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	hawks	hawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	falconers	falconer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | Harris's hawks |  |  | family groups |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | family groups |  |  |  |  | for birds of prey; rare *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **train** | present · passive | falconers | hawks *= hawk* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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:15`.

**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/).

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