--- title: Flamingos are tall pink wading birds that feed with their heads upsi… — The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the do… · tree and pragmatics description: Flamingos are tall pink wading birds that feed with their heads upside down in shallow water, sieving tiny shrimps and algae with their beaks; their pink comes from that food. Who acts: Flamingos, tall pink wading birds, pink. 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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 (Flamingos, tall pink wading birds, pink), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:14 # text = Flamingos are tall pink wading birds that feed with their heads upside down in shallow water, sieving tiny shrimps and algae with their beaks; their pink comes from that food. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Flamingos flamingo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 wading wading NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod:poss 11 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound 12 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 down down ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 sieving sieve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 pink pink NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Flamingos | tall pink wading birds | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feed** | present | tall pink wading birds | flamingos's heads | | shallow water | | with upside; down *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | | 3 | **sieve** | gerund | tall pink wading birds *not said here* | tiny shrimps and algae | | | | with flamingos's beaks | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Patient | | 4 | **come** | present | flamingos's pink | | | that food | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from food=Initial\_Location | 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:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:14`. **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 ×4, 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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