--- title: On top of a pole in a Ukrainian village sits a nest as wide as a kit… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics description: On top of a pole in a Ukrainian village sits a nest as wide as a kitchen table, and on it stands a white bird with black wing edges and long red legs: a white stork, leleka, back from Africa for the spring. 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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.lesson:0 # text = On top of a pole in a Ukrainian village sits a nest as wide as a kitchen table, and on it stands a white bird with black wing edges and long red legs: a white stork, leleka, back from Africa for the spring. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.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 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Ukrainian ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 9 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 wide wide ADJ JJ _ 12 amod _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 23 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 35 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 leleka leleka X FW _ 38 conj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 back back ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | | a nest | | top of a pole in a Ukrainian village | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme on top=Location | | 2 | **stand** | present | | a white bird | | table | | with black wing edges and long red legs | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme on it=Destination | 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:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.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): 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. 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