--- title: In a dive the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, reaching more… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: In a dive the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, reaching more than 300 km per hour, and peregrines nest on tall city buildings, which are high like their wild cliffs and full of pigeons to eat. Who acts: peregrine falcon, peregrines, tall city buildings. 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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 (peregrine falcon, peregrines, tall city buildings), 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:13 # text = In a dive the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, reaching more than 300 km per hour, and peregrines nest on tall city buildings, which are high like their wild cliffs and full of pigeons to eat. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dive dive NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 peregrine peregrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 falcon falcon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 15 advmod _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 per per ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 peregrines peregrine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 nest nest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 31 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:amod 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 a** | present | the peregrine falcon | the fastest animal | | a dive | | | tree rules | | 2 | **reach** | gerund | the peregrine falcon *not said here* | 300 km | | | per hour | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent km=Theme | | 3 | **nest** | present | peregrines | | | tall city buildings and pigeons | | | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | tall city buildings and pigeons | | | | | like peregrines's wild cliffs; high *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | tall city buildings and pigeons *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | peregrines *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, 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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