--- title: In autumn they fly about 10,000 kilometres to Africa, soaring on ris… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics description: In autumn they fly about 10,000 kilometres to Africa, soaring on rising warm air instead of flapping. Who acts: parents. 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 the prag --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 5 In autumn they fly about 10,000 kilometres to Africa, soaring on rising warm air instead of flapping. **Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** fly, soar, rise, flap · **To what, where:** 10,000 kilometres, Africa, rising warm air 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 (parents), 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:5 # text = In autumn they fly about 10,000 kilometres to Africa, soaring on rising warm air instead of flapping. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 soaring soar VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 12 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 amod _ _ 14 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 18 mark _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 flapping flap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | present | parents *= parent* | 10,000 kilometres | Africa | | autumn | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to africa=Result | | 2 | **soar** | gerund | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | rising warm air | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on air=Trajectory | | 3 | **rise** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **flap** | gerund | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=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:5`. **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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