--- title: Every bird there shows a different way to live: hummingbirds hover l… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: Every bird there shows a different way to live: hummingbirds hover like tiny helicopters at sugar water, a toucan tosses a grape up and catches it, a kookaburra laughs from a branch. Who acts: bird, hummingbirds, toucan, kookaburra. 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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 (bird, hummingbirds, toucan, kookaburra), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:1 # text = Every bird there shows a different way to live: hummingbirds hover like tiny helicopters at sugar water, a toucan tosses a grape up and catches it, a kookaburra laughs from a branch. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.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 ×2 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 hummingbirds hummingbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hover hover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 helicopters helicopter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 toucan toucan NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 tosses toss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 grape grape NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound:prt 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det 31 kookaburra kookaburra NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | every bird | a different way | | there | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | | 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | every bird *not said here* | a different way *not said here* | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hover** | present | hummingbirds | | | sugar water | | like tiny helicopters | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at water=Location | | 4 | **toss up** | present | a toucan | a grape | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Patient | | 5 | **catch** | present | a toucan *not said here* | grape | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **laugh** | present | a kookaburra | | | a branch | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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