--- title: True science: swallows feed on flying insects, and in a British wint… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: True science: swallows feed on flying insects, and in a British winter there are almost none, so swallows migrate to warm Africa every autumn and come back in spring. Who acts: swallows. 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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 (swallows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:16 # text = True science: swallows feed on flying insects, and in a British winter there are almost none, so swallows migrate to warm Africa every autumn and come back in spring. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 True true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 swallows swallow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 17 almost almost ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 none none ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 nsubj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 swallows swallow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 migrate migrate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obj 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl:unmarked 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 30 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | present | swallows | | | | | on flying insects | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on insect=Patient | | 2 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | in a British winter | tree rules | | 4 | **migrate** | present | swallows | True science | | | autumn | warm Africa *obl* | tree rules | | 5 | **come back** | infinitive | swallows *not said here* | | | | spring | | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:books:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:16`. **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 ×4, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/15/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/)