--- title: Storks hardly have a voice; they greet each other by throwing their… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics description: Storks hardly have a voice; they greet each other by throwing their heads back and clattering their bills like a wooden toy. Who acts: Storks, home. 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 --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 3 Storks hardly have a voice; they greet each other by throwing their heads back and clattering their bills like a wooden toy. **Who acts:** Storks, home · **What happens:** have, greet, throw back, clatter, bill · **To what, where:** voice, each, heads, bills 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, home), 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:3 # text = Storks hardly have a voice; they greet each other by throwing their heads back and clattering their bills like a wooden toy. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 greet greet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 9 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 8 obj _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 fixed _ _ 11 by by SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 throwing throw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 clattering clatter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 bills bill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Storks | a voice | | | | hardly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | | 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | home | each | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | | 3 | **throw back** | gerund | home *not said here* | home's heads | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 4 | **clatter** | gerund | home *not said here* | home's bills | | | | like a wooden toy | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bill=Theme | | 5 | **bill** | | home | | | | | | 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:3`. **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): R7-rel-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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