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title: Long narrow wings are good for gliding, like an albatross's, and bro… — Birds: feathers, nests and flight · tree and pragmatics
description: Long narrow wings are good for gliding, like an albatross's, and broad wings are good for soaring on rising warm air, like an eagle's. Who acts: Long narrow wings, broad wings. A sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, nests and flight» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Birds: feathers, nests and flight, sentence 13

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Long narrow wings are good for gliding, like an albatross's, and broad wings are good for soaring on rising warm air, like an eagle's.

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**Who acts:** Long narrow wings, broad wings · **What happens:** be, glide, soar, rise · **To what, where:** rising 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 narrow wings, broad wings), 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:13
# text = Long narrow wings are good for gliding, like an albatross's, and broad wings are good for soaring on rising warm air, like an eagle's.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	albatross	albatross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	soaring	soar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
23	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Long narrow wings |  |  |  |  | like a albatross; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **glide** | gerund | Long narrow wings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | broad wings |  |  |  |  | like a eagle; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **soar** | gerund | broad wings *not said here* | rising warm air |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP 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:world:073-birds-feathers-nests-flight.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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