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title: The common pheasant in British fields was brought from Asia long ago… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics
description: The common pheasant in British fields was brought from Asia long ago for hunting. A sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 10

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The common pheasant in British fields was brought from Asia long ago for hunting.

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**What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** common pheasant, Asia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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: 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:10
# text = The common pheasant in British fields was brought from Asia long ago for hunting.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pheasant	pheasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **bring** | past · passive |  | the common pheasant in British fields |  | Asia |  | for hunting; ago *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from asia=Initial\_Location |

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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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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