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title: The great bustard is one of the heaviest birds that can fly; big mal… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics
description: The great bustard is one of the heaviest birds that can fly; big males weigh about 16 kilograms, and it is in Ukraine's Red Book. Who acts: great bustard, heaviest birds, big males, bustard. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» of the biolog
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# Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 14

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The great bustard is one of the heaviest birds that can fly; big males weigh about 16 kilograms, and it is in Ukraine's Red Book.

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**Who acts:** great bustard, heaviest birds, big males, bustard · **What happens:** be, fly, weigh · **To what, where:** one, 16 kilograms, Red Book

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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 (great bustard, heaviest birds, big males, bustard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.lesson:14
# text = The great bustard is one of the heaviest birds that can fly; big males weigh about 16 kilograms, and it is in Ukraine's Red Book.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bustard	bustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	weigh	weigh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
28	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the great bustard | one |  |  |  | of the heaviest birds | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | can | the heaviest birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **weigh** | present | big males | 16 kilograms |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value |
| 4 | **is** | present | bustard |  |  | Ukraine's Red Book |  |  | 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:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.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): R7-rel-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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