--- title: At the bird of prey show an owl drifts over the crowd without a soun… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: At the bird of prey show an owl drifts over the crowd without a sound, a falcon drops onto a swinging lure, and a hawk comes back to the glove because it has learned the glove means food. Who acts: owl, falcon, hawk, glove. 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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 (owl, falcon, hawk, glove), 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:2 # text = At the bird of prey show an owl drifts over the crowd without a sound, a falcon drops onto a swinging lure, and a hawk comes back to the glove because it has learned the glove means food. # 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 ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 drifts drift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 13 without without ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 falcon falcon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 onto onto ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 swinging swing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 23 lure lure NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hawk hawk NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 glove glove NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 glove glove NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 40 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drift** | present | a owl | bird show | | the crowd | | without a sound | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over crowd=Trajectory | | 2 | **drop** | present | a falcon | | | a swinging lure | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme onto lure=Trajectory | | 3 | **swing** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **come back** | present | a hawk | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **learn** | present · perfect | hawk | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | the glove | food | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | 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:2`. **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. **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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