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title: Ukrainian storks fly round the Black Sea through Turkey, the Middle… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ukrainian storks fly round the Black Sea through Turkey, the Middle East and Egypt to eastern and southern Africa, about 10,000 kilometres each way. Who acts: Ukrainian storks. A sentence of the lesson «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» of the biology course of Mov
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# White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 14

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Ukrainian storks fly round the Black Sea through Turkey, the Middle East and Egypt to eastern and southern Africa, about 10,000 kilometres each way.

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**Who acts:** Ukrainian storks · **What happens:** fly · **To what, where:** 10,000 kilometres, eastern Africa, Turkey

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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 (Ukrainian storks), 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:14
# text = Ukrainian storks fly round the Black Sea through Turkey, the Middle East and Egypt to eastern and southern Africa, about 10,000 kilometres each way.
# 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	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
13	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod
20	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | Ukrainian storks | 10,000 kilometres  each way | eastern Africa | Turkey and the Middle East and Egypt |  | round the Black Sea | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to africa=Result |

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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:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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