--- title: Granny says a stork on the roof brings luck, and for many Ukrainians… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics description: Granny says a stork on the roof brings luck, and for many Ukrainians the stork stands for home and spring. Who acts: Granny, stork. 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 a --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 2 Granny says a stork on the roof brings luck, and for many Ukrainians the stork stands for home and spring. **Who acts:** Granny, stork · **What happens:** say, bring, stand · **To what, where:** luck · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Granny, stork), 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:2 # text = Granny says a stork on the roof brings luck, and for many Ukrainians the stork stands for home and 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Granny Granny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 9 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Ukrainians Ukrainian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Granny | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **bring** | present | a stork on the roof | luck | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | | 3 | **stand** | present | the stork | | | | | for many Ukrainians; for home and spring | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for ukrainian=Attribute | 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:2`. **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): 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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