--- title: Swans, many parrots and albatrosses keep the same partner for years,… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: Swans, many parrots and albatrosses keep the same partner for years, and some albatross pairs stay together for 50 years or more. Who acts: Swans, albatross pairs. 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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 (Swans, albatross pairs), 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:11 # text = Swans, many parrots and albatrosses keep the same partner for years, and some albatross pairs stay together for 50 years or more. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Swans swan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 albatrosses albatross NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 16 albatross albatross NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **keep** | present | Swans and many parrots and albatrosses | the same partner | | | year | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Theme | | 2 | **stay together** | present | some albatross pairs | | | | year | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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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