More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 10

Most birds have a poor sense of smell and will not abandon a chick because a person touched it; a feathered chick hopping on the ground is often a fledgling with its parents nearby.

Who acts: Most birds, person, feathered chick · What happens: have, not abandon, touch, hop, be, sense · To what, where: poor sense, chick, ground, fledgling, smell

This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» of the biology 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 (Most birds, person, feathered chick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sense	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sense	amod
6	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 smell	case
8	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sense	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 abandon	cc
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 abandon	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 abandon	advmod
12	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chick	det
14	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 abandon	obj
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 touched	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 person	det
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 touched	nsubj
18	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 abandon	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 touched	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 fledgling	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chick	det
22	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chick	amod
23	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fledgling	nsubj
24	hopping	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 chick	acl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hopping	obl
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fledgling	cop
29	often	often	ADV	_	31 fledgling	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fledgling	det
31	fledgling	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	parataxis
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 parents	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 parents	nmod:poss
34	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fledgling	nmod
35	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	18 touched	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most birds	a poor sense of smell			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	not abandon	future	Most birds not said here	a chick			vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme chick=Source
3	touch	past	a person	chick		nearby property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
4	hop	gerund	a feathered chick not said here		the ground		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory
5	is a	present	a feathered chick	a fledgling		with chick's parents; often property	tree rules
6	sense			smell			nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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, 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:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:10.

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.

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