--- title: The kiwi is a flightless, mostly nocturnal New Zealand bird with nos… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics description: The kiwi is a flightless, mostly nocturnal New Zealand bird with nostrils at the tip of its long beak; its egg is about 20 percent of the mother's weight, one of the biggest for body size of any bird. Who acts: kiwi, egg. 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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 (kiwi, egg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.lesson:9 # text = The kiwi is a flightless, mostly nocturnal New Zealand bird with nostrils at the tip of its long beak; its egg is about 20 percent of the mother's weight, one of the biggest for body size of any bird. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kiwi kiwi NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 flightless flightless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 8 nocturnal nocturnal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 appos _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 nmod _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 43 det _ _ 43 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is** | present | the kiwi | | | | | flightless *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | kiwi's egg | 20 percent | | | | of the mother's weight | tree rules | 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:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.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): R5-strong ×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: [Animals of Australia and New Zealand:…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/8/) - next →: [Animals of Australia and New Zealand:…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/)