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title: Some storks from Spain and Portugal now stay all winter and eat at r… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some storks from Spain and Portugal now stay all winter and eat at rubbish dumps instead of flying to Africa. Who acts: storks. 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 t
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# White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 17

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Some storks from Spain and Portugal now stay all winter and eat at rubbish dumps instead of flying to Africa.

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**Who acts:** storks · **What happens:** stay, eat, fly · **To what, where:** rubbish dumps, Africa

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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 (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:17
# text = Some storks from Spain and Portugal now stay all winter and eat at rubbish dumps instead of flying to Africa.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dumps	dump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **stay** | present | some storks from Spain and Portugal |  |  |  | now; winter |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | some storks from Spain and Portugal *not said here* |  |  | rubbish dumps |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | some storks from Spain and Portugal *not said here* |  | Africa |  |  |  | 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:17`.

**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): no change. **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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