--- title: Many fancy animal group names, like a murder of crows or a parliamen… — Nouns: the names of things, people, places and i… · tree and pragmatics description: Many fancy animal group names, like a murder of crows or a parliament of owls, come from old hunting lists written in the 1400s and are used mostly for fun. Who acts: Many fancy group names. 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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 (Many fancy group names), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:12 # text = Many fancy animal group names, like a murder of crows or a parliament of owls, come from old hunting lists written in the 1400s and are used mostly for fun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 2 fancy fancy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 4 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 murder murder NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 parliament parliament NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis 19 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 lists list NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 1400s 1400 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 30 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Many fancy group names like a murder of crows or a parliament of owls | | | old hunting lists | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from list=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **write** | participle | | old hunting lists *not said here* | | the 1400s | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1400=Destination | | 3 | **use** | present · passive | Many fancy group names like a murder of crows or a parliament of owls *not said here* | | | | | for fun | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | | 4 | **murder** | | | crows | | | | | nom murder «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:12`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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