--- title: Storks come back to the same nest year after year and add new sticks… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics description: Storks come back to the same nest year after year and add new sticks, so old nests grow huge. Who acts: Storks, old nests. A sentence of the lesson «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [White storks: Ukraine's favourite bird…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/) / 1 # White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 1 Storks come back to the same nest year after year and add new sticks, so old nests grow huge. **Who acts:** Storks, old nests · **What happens:** come back, add, grow · **To what, where:** new sticks This is a sentence of the lesson «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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 (Storks, old nests), 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:1 # text = Storks come back to the same nest year after year and add new sticks, so old nests grow huge. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 back back ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 7 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 20 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | present | Storks | | | | year | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Storks *not said here* | new sticks | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | present | old nests | | | | | huge *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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. 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