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title: Magpies can remember human faces, and people who throw things at the… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Magpies can remember human faces, and people who throw things at them often get swooped more. Who acts: Magpies, people. A sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 27

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Magpies can remember human faces, and people who throw things at them often get swooped more.

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**Who acts:** Magpies, people · **What happens:** remember, throw, swoop · **To what, where:** human faces, things, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» of the everyday 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 (Magpies, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:27
# text = Magpies can remember human faces, and people who throw things at them often get swooped more.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.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): no change
1	Magpies	magpie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	swooped	swoop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | can | Magpies | human faces |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent face=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | present | people | things |  |  |  | at people | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme at they=Destination |
| 3 | **swoop** | present · passive |  | people |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:27`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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