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title: About 11,000 kinds of birds share the same plan of feathers, beak an… — Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrot… · tree and pragmatics
description: About 11,000 kinds of birds share the same plan of feathers, beak and two wings, yet each has bent it to fit its own life. Who acts: 11,000 kinds, each. A sentence of the lesson «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» of the biology course of Mova's primar
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# Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows, sentence 0

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About 11,000 kinds of birds share the same plan of feathers, beak and two wings, yet each has bent it to fit its own life.

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**Who acts:** 11,000 kinds, each · **What happens:** share, bend, fit, plan · **To what, where:** same plan, plan, own life, feathers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» 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 (11,000 kinds, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:0
# text = About 11,000 kinds of birds share the same plan of feathers, beak and two wings, yet each has bent it to fit its own life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 035-birds-of-every-kind.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	11,000	11,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **share** | present | 11,000 kinds of birds | the same plan of feathers and beak and two wings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bend** | present · perfect | each | plan |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent it=Material |
| 3 | **fit** | to-infinitive | each *not said here* | plan's own life |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
| 4 | **plan** |  |  | feathers and beak and two wings |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=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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**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:035-birds-of-every-kind.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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