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title: The capercaillie, hlukhar or «the deaf one» in Ukrainian, is the big… — Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The capercaillie, hlukhar or «the deaf one» in Ukrainian, is the biggest grouse; for a moment in its clicking spring song it seems not to hear, and it is now rare. Who acts: capercaillie, it, song, grouse. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bea
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# Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears, sentence 17

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The capercaillie, hlukhar or «the deaf one» in Ukrainian, is the biggest grouse; for a moment in its clicking spring song it seems not to hear, and it is now rare.

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**Who acts:** capercaillie, it, song, grouse · **What happens:** be, seem, not hear, sing · **To what, where:** biggest grouse

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» 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 (capercaillie, it, song, grouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.lesson:17
# text = The capercaillie, hlukhar or «the deaf one» in Ukrainian, is the biggest grouse; for a moment in its clicking spring song it seems not to hear, and it is now rare.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	capercaillie	capercaillie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hlukhar	hlukhar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	grouse	grouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	clicking	clicking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:expl
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	now	now	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 a** | present | the capercaillie and hlukhar or the deaf one in Ukrainian | the biggest grouse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | present | it |  |  |  | moment |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **hear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | song |  |  |  | now | rare *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sing** |  | grouse |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.lesson:17`.

**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 ×2. **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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