--- title: White storks are almost silent and clatter their bills to greet each… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics description: White storks are almost silent and clatter their bills to greet each other, while chicks hiss and mew before they learn to clatter. Who acts: White storks, chicks, people. A sentence of the lesson «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 10 White storks are almost silent and clatter their bills to greet each other, while chicks hiss and mew before they learn to clatter. **Who acts:** White storks, chicks, people · **What happens:** be, clatter, greet, hiss, mew, learn · **To what, where:** bills, each 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 (White storks, chicks, people), 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:10 # text = White storks are almost silent and clatter their bills to greet each other, while chicks hiss and mew before they learn to clatter. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 almost almost ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 clatter clatter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 bills bill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 11 obj _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 fixed _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hiss hiss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 mew mew VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 before before SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 clatter clatter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is** | present | White storks | | | | | almost, silent *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **clatter** | present | White storks *not said here* | people's bills | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bill=Theme | | 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | White storks *not said here* | each | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | | 4 | **hiss** | present | chicks | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mew** | present | chicks *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **learn** | present | chicks *= chick* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **clatter** | to-infinitive | chicks *= chick* *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **bill** | | people | | | | | | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=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:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.lesson:10`. **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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