--- title: Geese fly in a V shape; each bird gets a little lift from the air sw… — Migration: the great journeys · tree and pragmatics description: Geese fly in a V shape; each bird gets a little lift from the air swirling off the wing tips of the bird in front, and they take turns at the front. Who acts: Geese, bird, little lift. A sentence of the lesson «Migration: the great journeys» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/11/) [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/) / [Migration: the great journeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/) / 11 # Migration: the great journeys, sentence 11 Geese fly in a V shape; each bird gets a little lift from the air swirling off the wing tips of the bird in front, and they take turns at the front. **Who acts:** Geese, bird, little lift · **What happens:** fly, get, swirl, take · **To what, where:** V shape, little lift, air, wing tips, turns, front This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration: the great journeys» 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 (Geese, bird, little lift), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:11 # text = Geese fly in a V shape; each bird gets a little lift from the air swirling off the wing tips of the bird in front, and they take turns at the front. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 054-migration-the-great-journeys.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Geese geese NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 V v NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nummod|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 6 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 swirling swirl VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 18 off off ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 31 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10: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 | Geese | | | a V shape | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shape=Location | | 2 | **get** | present | each bird | a little lift | | the air | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lift=Theme from air=Source | | 3 | **swirl** | gerund | a little lift *not said here* | | | the wing tips of the bird in front | | | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off tip=Destination | | 4 | **take** | present | Geese | turns | | the front | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent turn=Theme at front=Asset | 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:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Migration: the great journeys, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/10/) - next →: [Migration: the great journeys, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/)