--- title: Flamingos often rest on one leg, even asleep; it takes almost no mus… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show · tree and pragmatics description: Flamingos often rest on one leg, even asleep; it takes almost no muscle effort for them, and the backwards-bending joint is really the ankle. Who acts: Flamingos, it, bending joint. A sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» of the biology course of Mova's primary school --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 9 Flamingos often rest on one leg, even asleep; it takes almost no muscle effort for them, and the backwards-bending joint is really the ankle. **Who acts:** Flamingos, it, bending joint · **What happens:** rest, take, bend, be · **To what, where:** one leg, muscle effort, ankle 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 (Flamingos, it, bending joint), 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:9 # text = Flamingos often rest on one leg, even asleep; it takes almost no muscle effort for them, and the backwards-bending joint is really the ankle. # 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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Flamingos flamingo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 rest rest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 almost almost ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 15 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 22 backwards backward ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 24 bending bend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 joint joint NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 really really ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ankle ankle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **rest** | present | Flamingos | | | one leg | | often *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Location | | 2 | **take** | present | it | no muscle effort | | | | for Flamingos *= flamingo* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent effort=Theme for they=Beneficiary | | 3 | **bend** | gerund | | | | | | backward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the bending joint | the ankle | | | | | tree rules | 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:9`. **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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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