--- title: Vultures have bare heads that stay clean when they feed inside dead… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: Vultures have bare heads that stay clean when they feed inside dead animals, and their strong stomach acid kills germs that would make other animals ill. Who acts: Vultures, bare heads, heads, strong stomach acid. 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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 (Vultures, bare heads, heads, strong stomach acid), 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:15 # text = Vultures have bare heads that stay clean when they feed inside dead animals, and their strong stomach acid kills germs that would make other animals ill. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Vultures vulture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj 6 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 inside inside ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 ill ill ADJ JJ _ 24 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Vultures | bare heads | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 2 | **stay** | present | bare heads | | | | | clean *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feed** | present | heads *= head* | dead animals | | | | inside *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **kill** | present | heads's strong stomach acid | germs | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 5 | **make** | would | germs | other animals | | | | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset animal=Product | 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:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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