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title: Shoebills greet each other by clattering their huge beaks, and scien… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shoebills greet each other by clattering their huge beaks, and scientists now think their closest relatives are pelicans and hammerkops, not true storks. Who acts: Shoebills, scientists, closest relatives. A sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins 
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# Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 5

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Shoebills greet each other by clattering their huge beaks, and scientists now think their closest relatives are pelicans and hammerkops, not true storks.

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**Who acts:** Shoebills, scientists, closest relatives · **What happens:** greet, clatter, think, be · **To what, where:** each, huge beaks, pelicans · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 (Shoebills, scientists, closest relatives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:5
# text = Shoebills greet each other by clattering their huge beaks, and scientists now think their closest relatives are pelicans and hammerkops, not true storks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.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	Shoebills	shoebill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	2	obj	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	fixed	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	clattering	clatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	pelicans	pelican	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hammerkops	hammerkop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | Shoebills | each |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
| 2 | **clatter** | gerund | Shoebills *not said here* | lungfish's huge beaks |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beak=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists |  |  |  | now |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | scientists's closest relatives | pelicans and hammerkops and true storks |  |  |  |  | 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:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:5`.

**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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