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title: The bald eagle is not bald; its name comes from an old word meaning… — Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bal… · tree and pragmatics
description: The bald eagle is not bald; its name comes from an old word meaning white, for its white head, and it became the national bird of the USA in 1782. Who acts: bald eagle, name, old word, eagle. A sentence of the lesson «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes
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# Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 5

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The bald eagle is not bald; its name comes from an old word meaning white, for its white head, and it became the national bird of the USA in 1782.

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**Who acts:** bald eagle, name, old word, eagle · **What happens:** not be, come, mean, become, name · **To what, where:** old word, white, national bird, 1782

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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 (bald eagle, name, old word, eagle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:5
# text = The bald eagle is not bald; its name comes from an old word meaning white, for its white head, and it became the national bird of the USA in 1782.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1782	1782	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | the bald eagle |  |  |  |  | bald *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | eagle's name |  |  | a old word |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund | a old word *not said here* | white |  |  |  | for eagle's white head | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot white=Theme for head=Attribute |
| 4 | **become** | past | eagle | the national bird of the USA |  |  |  | in 1782 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1782=Result |
| 5 | **name** |  | eagle |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×2. **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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