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title: A flamingo feeds with its head upside down in the water, filtering t… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics
description: A flamingo feeds with its head upside down in the water, filtering tiny food through comb-like edges of its bill. Who acts: flamingo, ankle. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 11

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A flamingo feeds with its head upside down in the water, filtering tiny food through comb-like edges of its bill.

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**Who acts:** flamingo, ankle · **What happens:** feed, filter, bill · **To what, where:** water, tiny food, like edges

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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: who acts (flamingo, ankle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:11
# text = A flamingo feeds with its head upside down in the water, filtering tiny food through comb-like edges of its bill.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	filtering	filter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present | a flamingo |  |  | the water |  | with head upside | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location |
| 2 | **filter** | gerund | a flamingo *not said here* | tiny food |  | like edges of ankle's bill |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent food=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bill** |  | ankle |  |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:11`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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