--- title: The kiwi of New Zealand is a flightless night bird, safe on the grou… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics description: The kiwi of New Zealand is a flightless night bird, safe on the ground because old New Zealand had no ground-hunting mammals, with nostrils at the tip of its beak, and its egg is about a fifth of the mother's weight. Who acts: kiwi, old New Zealand, egg. 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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 (kiwi, old New Zealand, egg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:12 # text = The kiwi of New Zealand is a flightless night bird, safe on the ground because old New Zealand had no ground-hunting mammals, with nostrils at the tip of its beak, and its egg is about a fifth of the mother's weight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kiwi kiwi NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 5 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 flightless flightless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 19 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 22 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:compound 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 40 about about ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 's 's PART POS _ 45 case _ _ 47 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 48 . . 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 kiwi of New Zealand | a flightless night bird | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | old New Zealand | no hunting mammals and a fifth | | | | with nostrils at the tip of kiwi's beak | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mammal=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | kiwi's egg | a fifth | | | | of the mother's weight; about *property* | 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. 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