--- title: Pigeons, like many animals, can carry some germs, but the risk to pe… — Birds and baby animals · tree and pragmatics description: Pigeons, like many animals, can carry some germs, but the risk to people is low with normal hand-washing; pigeons carried messages in wars and some won medals. Who acts: Pigeons, risk, some. 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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 (Pigeons, risk, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:15 # text = Pigeons, like many animals, can carry some germs, but the risk to people is low with normal hand-washing; pigeons carried messages in wars and some won medals. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 010-birds-and-baby-animals.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 risk risk NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 19 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 washing hand-washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 25 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 27 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 32 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:det 32 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 medals medal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | can | Pigeons like many animals | some germs | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the risk to people | | | | | with normal hand washing; low *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **carry** | past | pigeons | messages and medals | | wars | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent message=Value in war=Location | | 4 | **win** | past | some | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:15`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Birds and baby animals, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/13/) - next →: [Birds and baby animals, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/)