--- title: A hornbill's huge beak is mostly hollow and light, and a female horn… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: A hornbill's huge beak is mostly hollow and light, and a female hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with mud while the male feeds her through a slit. Who acts: huge beak, female hornbill, male. 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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 (huge beak, female hornbill, male), 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:8 # text = A hornbill's huge beak is mostly hollow and light, and a female hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with mud while the male feeds her through a slit. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hornbill hornbill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 14 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod 15 hornbill hornbill NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound 16 seals seal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obj _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 slit slit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a hornbill's huge beak | | | | | hollow, mostly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a hornbill's huge beak *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **seal** | present | a female hornbill | hornbill | | a tree hole with mud | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | | 4 | **feed** | present | the male | | hornbill | a slit | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Recipient | 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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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