--- title: In spring a male great bustard turns his feathers inside out to look… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics description: In spring a male great bustard turns his feathers inside out to look like a white fluffy ball, puffs up his throat and fans his tail, and females watch many males before choosing. Who acts: male great bustard, females. 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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 (male great bustard, females), 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:16 # text = In spring a male great bustard turns his feathers inside out to look like a white fluffy ball, puffs up his throat and fans his tail, and females watch many males before choosing. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bustard bustard NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 inside inside ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 out out ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 14 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 fluffy fluffy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 puffs puff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fans fan VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 before before SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 choosing choose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | a male great bustard | Book's feathers | | | spring | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | a male great bustard *not said here* | | | | | like a white fluffy ball | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **puff up** | present | a male great bustard *not said here* | Book's throat | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location throat=Source | | 4 | **fan** | present | a male great bustard *not said here* | Book's tail | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **watch** | present | females | many males | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent male=Theme | | 6 | **choose** | gerund | females *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.lesson:16`. **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 ×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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