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title: Eagles see details several times more sharply than people, and an ea… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: Eagles see details several times more sharply than people, and an eagle's eyes are about as big as a human's. Who acts: Eagles, eyes. 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 7

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Eagles see details several times more sharply than people, and an eagle's eyes are about as big as a human's.

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**Who acts:** Eagles, eyes · **What happens:** see, be · **To what, where:** details

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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 (Eagles, eyes), 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:7
# text = Eagles see details several times more sharply than people, and an eagle's eyes are about as big as a human's.
# 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): no change
1	Eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	human	human	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **see** | present | Eagles | details |  |  |  | sharply *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detail=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | a eagle's eyes |  |  |  |  | as a human; about, big *property* | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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