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title: Long, stiff flight feathers on the wings and tail catch the air, and… — Birds: feathers, nests and flight · tree and pragmatics
description: Long, stiff flight feathers on the wings and tail catch the air, and soft, fluffy down feathers close to the skin trap warm air like a duvet. Who acts: Long stiff flight feathers, soft fluffy down feathers. A sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, nests and flight» of the world course of Mova's pr
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# Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 1

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Long, stiff flight feathers on the wings and tail catch the air, and soft, fluffy down feathers close to the skin trap warm air like a duvet.

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**Who acts:** Long stiff flight feathers, soft fluffy down feathers · **What happens:** catch, trap · **To what, where:** air, warm air

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, nests and flight» 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 (Long stiff flight feathers, soft fluffy down feathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:073-birds-feathers-nests-flight.lesson:1
# text = Long, stiff flight feathers on the wings and tail catch the air, and soft, fluffy down feathers close to the skin trap warm air like a duvet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 073-birds-feathers-nests-flight.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
11	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
21	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
24	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nmod
25	trap	trap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	duvet	duvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **catch** | present | Long stiff flight feathers on the wings and tail | the air |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 2 | **trap** | present | soft fluffy down feathers | warm air |  |  |  | like a duvet | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |

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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:073-birds-feathers-nests-flight.lesson:1`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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