--- title: A vulture lands last, bald and scruffy, but it is one of nature's cl… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: A vulture lands last, bald and scruffy, but it is one of nature's cleaners, eating dead animals before their germs can spread. Who acts: vulture, germs. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Parrots, flamingos and the bird of pre…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show/) / 3 # Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 3 A vulture lands last, bald and scruffy, but it is one of nature's cleaners, eating dead animals before their germs can spread. **Who acts:** vulture, germs · **What happens:** land, be, eat, spread · **To what, where:** one, dead animals 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 (vulture, germs), 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:3 # text = A vulture lands last, bald and scruffy, but it is one of nature's cleaners, eating dead animals before their germs can spread. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 vulture vulture NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 last last ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 scruffy scruffy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 cleaners cleaner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 20 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **land** | present | a vulture | | | | | last *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | vulture | one | | | | of nature's cleaners | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | vulture *not said here* | dead animals | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | | 4 | **spread** | can | animals's germs | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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