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title: Swans and many penguins pair up as a couple, and swans often stay to… — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Swans and many penguins pair up as a couple, and swans often stay together for life. Who acts: Swans. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 18

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Swans and many penguins pair up as a couple, and swans often stay together for life.

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**Who acts:** Swans · **What happens:** pair up, stay together

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» 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 (Swans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:18
# text = Swans and many penguins pair up as a couple, and swans often stay together for life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	pair	pair	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pair up** | present | Swans and many penguins |  |  |  |  | as a couple | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stay together** | present | swans |  |  |  |  | for life; often, together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:18`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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