--- title: Babies grow inside their mothers; the stork that delivers babies is… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and thei… · tree and pragmatics description: Babies grow inside their mothers; the stork that delivers babies is an old European tale, perhaps because storks live close to people and return to the same nest. Who acts: Babies, stork, storks. A sentence of the lesson «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» of the bi --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa, sentence 9 Babies grow inside their mothers; the stork that delivers babies is an old European tale, perhaps because storks live close to people and return to the same nest. **Who acts:** Babies, stork, storks · **What happens:** grow, deliver, be, live, return · **To what, where:** babies, old European tale 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 (Babies, stork, 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:9 # text = Babies grow inside their mothers; the stork that delivers babies is an old European tale, perhaps because storks live close to people and return to the same nest. # 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 Babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 inside inside ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 delivers deliver VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 return return VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **grow** | present | Babies | | | | | inside Babies's mothers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside mother=Location | | 2 | **deliver** | present | the stork | babies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | the stork | a old European tale | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | present | storks | | | | | to people; close, perhaps *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **return** | present | storks *not said here* | | | | | to the same nest *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to nest=Result | 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:9`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [White storks: Ukraine's favourite bird…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/8/) - next →: [White storks: Ukraine's favourite bird…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/)