--- title: Stork nests are used year after year and grow huge, sometimes about… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics description: Stork nests are used year after year and grow huge, sometimes about 2 metres across; sparrows often live in the nest walls, and power companies build platforms on poles so nests do not touch the wires. Who acts: sparrows, power companies, nests. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrows, power companies, nests), 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:7 # text = Stork nests are used year after year and grow huge, sometimes about 2 metres across; sparrows often live in the nest walls, and power companies build platforms on poles so nests do not touch the wires. # 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 Stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 used used VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 15 advmod _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 across across ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 sparrows sparrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 platforms platform NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 so so SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 35 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **used** | present · passive | | Stork nests | | | year | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | | | | | | huge *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **live** | present | sparrows | | | the nest walls | | often *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wall=Location | | 4 | **build** | present | power companies | platforms | | poles | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent platform=Theme on pole=Source | | 5 | **not** **touch** | present · do-support | nests | the wires | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-Theme | 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:7`. **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. 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