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title: Hummingbirds migrate on their own, flying amazing distances; they do… — Birds and baby animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Hummingbirds migrate on their own, flying amazing distances; they do not ride on geese. Who acts: Hummingbirds, birds. A sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Birds and baby animals, sentence 9

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Hummingbirds migrate on their own, flying amazing distances; they do not ride on geese.

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**Who acts:** Hummingbirds, birds · **What happens:** migrate, fly, not ride · **To what, where:** flying amazing distances, own

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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 (Hummingbirds, birds), 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:9
# text = Hummingbirds migrate on their own, flying amazing distances; they do not ride on geese.
# 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): no change
1	Hummingbirds	hummingbird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	migrate	migrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
8	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	distances	distance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **migrate** | present | Hummingbirds | flying amazing distances |  | hummingbirds's own |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **ride** | present · do-support | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | on geese | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:9`.

**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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