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title: A city is full of bird homes if you look like a bird: roofs and wall… — City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows a… · tree and pragmatics
description: A city is full of bird homes if you look like a bird: roofs and wall gaps are caves, church towers are cliffs, café tables are feeding grounds and street lights are a second sunset. Who acts: city, you, roofs, church towers. A sentence of the lesson «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows an
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# City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings, sentence 0

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A city is full of bird homes if you look like a bird: roofs and wall gaps are caves, church towers are cliffs, café tables are feeding grounds and street lights are a second sunset.

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**Who acts:** city, you, roofs, church towers, café tables, street lights · **What happens:** be, look, cave, feed · **To what, where:** cliffs, grounds, second sunset

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This is a sentence of the lesson «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings» 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 (city, you, roofs, church towers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings.lesson:0
# text = A city is full of bird homes if you look like a bird: roofs and wall gaps are caves, church towers are cliffs, café tables are feeding grounds and street lights are a second sunset.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
20	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	café	café	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	conj	_	_
31	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	amod	_	_
38	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
39	.	.	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 | **is** | present | a city |  |  |  |  | of bird homes; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | like a bird | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cave** |  | roofs and wall gaps |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | church towers | cliffs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feed** | present · progressive | café tables | grounds |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grounds=Recipient |
| 6 | **is a** | present | street lights | a second sunset |  |  |  |  | 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:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings.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): R6-punct-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.

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