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title: Many birds, such as swallows and storks, migrate south in autumn and… — Migration and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: Many birds, such as swallows and storks, migrate south in autumn and return in spring. Who acts: Many birds. A sentence of the lesson «Migration and hibernation» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Migration and hibernation, sentence 6

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Many birds, such as swallows and storks, migrate south in autumn and return in spring.

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**Who acts:** Many birds · **What happens:** migrate, return

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration and hibernation» of the world 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 (Many birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:028-migration-and-hibernation.lesson:6
# text = Many birds, such as swallows and storks, migrate south in autumn and return in spring.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 028-migration-and-hibernation.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	migrate	migrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	south	south	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **migrate** | present | Many birds such swallows and storks |  |  |  | autumn | south *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | present | Many birds such swallows and storks *not said here* |  |  |  | spring |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:world:028-migration-and-hibernation.lesson:6`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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