--- title: About 1.5 million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, move in a gr… — Migration: the great journeys · tree and pragmatics description: About 1.5 million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, move in a great loop between Tanzania and Kenya, following the rains and fresh grass; their calves can walk within minutes of birth, because they must keep up with a herd that is always moving. Who acts: million wildebeest, calves, herd. A sent --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Migration: the great journeys, sentence 7 About 1.5 million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, move in a great loop between Tanzania and Kenya, following the rains and fresh grass; their calves can walk within minutes of birth, because they must keep up with a herd that is always moving. **Who acts:** million wildebeest, calves, herd · **What happens:** move, walk, keep up · **To what, where:** great loop 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 (million wildebeest, calves, herd), 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:7 # text = About 1.5 million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, move in a great loop between Tanzania and Kenya, following the rains and fresh grass; their calves can walk within minutes of birth, because they must keep up with a herd that is always moving. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 1.5 1.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 wildebeest wildebeest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 zebras zebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 gazelles gazelle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 loop loop NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 between between ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Tanzania Tanzania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Kenya Kenya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 following follow ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rains rain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 calves calf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 32 within within ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 37 because because SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 always always ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 acl:relcl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | million wildebeest with zebras and gazelles | | | a great loop between Tanzania and Kenya | | follow the rains and fresh grass | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in loop=Trajectory | | 2 | **walk** | can | rains's calves | | | | minute | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep up** | must | calves *= calf* | | | | | with a herd | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **move** | present · progressive | a herd | | | | | always *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:054-migration-the-great-journeys.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): 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: [Migration: the great journeys, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/6/) - next →: [Migration: the great journeys, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/)