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title: The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird,… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest plac… · tree and pragmatics
description: The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird, up to about 3.5 metres, and glides for hours on the winds of the Southern Ocean. Who acts: wandering albatross. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth, sentence 16

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The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird, up to about 3.5 metres, and glides for hours on the winds of the Southern Ocean.

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**Who acts:** wandering albatross · **What happens:** have, glide, wind · **To what, where:** longest wingspan, winds, Southern Ocean

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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 (wandering albatross), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:007-antarctica.lesson:16
# text = The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird, up to about 3.5 metres, and glides for hours on the winds of the Southern Ocean.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 007-antarctica.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wandering	wandering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	albatross	albatross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	wingspan	wingspan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	3.5	3.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	glides	glide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Southern	Southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the wandering albatross | the longest wingspan of any living bird |  |  |  | up 3.5 metres | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wingspan=Patient |
| 2 | **glide** | present | the wandering albatross *not said here* |  |  | the winds of the Southern Ocean | hour |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wind=Trajectory |
| 3 | **wind** |  |  | the Southern Ocean |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:007-antarctica.lesson:16`.

**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, 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/).

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