--- title: The white stork, leleka in Ukrainian, stands for home and spring, an… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics description: The white stork, leleka in Ukrainian, stands for home and spring, and Ukraine has tens of thousands of pairs, one of the biggest numbers in Europe; old people say storks never nest by a house of quarrels. Who acts: white stork, Ukraine, old people, storks. 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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 (white stork, Ukraine, old people, 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:8 # text = The white stork, leleka in Ukrainian, stands for home and spring, and Ukraine has tens of thousands of pairs, one of the biggest numbers in Europe; old people say storks never nest by a house of quarrels. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 leleka leleka X FW Foreign=Yes 3 conj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 35 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 nest nest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 38 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 quarrels quarrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | the white stork | | | | | for home and spring | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for home=Attribute | | 2 | **have** | present | Ukraine | tens of thousands of pairs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | old people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **nest** | present | storks | | | | | by a house of quarrels | vn berry-13.7 «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:8`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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