--- title: Many pheasants come from Asia; the males are colourful to impress, w… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: Many pheasants come from Asia; the males are colourful to impress, while the brown females sit on the nest and need to hide. Who acts: Many pheasants, males, brown females. 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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 (Many pheasants, males, brown females), 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:9 # text = Many pheasants come from Asia; the males are colourful to impress, while the brown females sit on the nest and need to hide. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pheasants pheasant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 colourful colourful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 impress impress VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Many pheasants | | | Asia | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from asia=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is** | present | the males | | | | | colourful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **impress** | to-infinitive | the males *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **sit** | present | the brown females | | | the nest | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nest=Location | | 5 | **need** | present | the brown females *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **hide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the brown females *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:9`. **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): 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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