--- title: Peregrine falcons nest on tall buildings, bridges and churches that… — City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows a… · tree and pragmatics description: Peregrine falcons nest on tall buildings, bridges and churches that look like cliffs to them, eat mostly city pigeons, and in a hunting dive can go over 300 kilometres an hour, the fastest animal on Earth. Who acts: Peregrine falcons, tall buildings. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peregrine falcons, tall buildings), 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:14 # text = Peregrine falcons nest on tall buildings, bridges and churches that look like cliffs to them, eat mostly city pigeons, and in a hunting dive can go over 300 kilometres an hour, the fastest animal on Earth. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Peregrine peregrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 falcons falcon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 nest nest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 bridges bridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 churches church NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 13 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:parataxis 19 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 dive dive NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 30 over over ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:unmarked _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 38 amod _ _ 38 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl 39 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nest** | present | Peregrine falcons | | | tall buildings and bridges and churches | | | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | present | tall buildings and bridges and churches | | cliffs *= cliff* | | | like cliffs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | present | Peregrine falcons *not said here* | city pigeons | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Patient | | 4 | **go over** | can | Peregrine falcons *not said here* | 300 kilometres a hour | | a hunting dive | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme | 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. **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:14`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [City birds: sparrows, starlings, swift…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/13/) - next →: [City birds: sparrows, starlings, swift…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/)