Budgies and canaries, sentence 12
Pet birds need time out of the cage to fly every day in a safe room, with windows and mirrors covered or marked so the bird does not fly into the glass, and other pets kept out.
Who acts: Pet birds, bird · What happens: need, fly, cover, mark, not fly, keep out · To what, where: cage, safe room, windows, glass
This is a sentence of the lesson «Budgies and canaries» 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 (Pet birds, bird), 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 | Pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birds | compound |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cage | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cage | det |
| 8 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fly | mark |
| 10 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 need | advcl |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fly | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 15 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 room | amod |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fly | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 covered | punct |
| 18 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 22 covered | mark |
| 19 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mirrors | cc |
| 21 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 windows | conj |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fly | advcl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 marked | cc |
| 24 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 covered | conj |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 30 fly | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bird | det |
| 27 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fly | nsubj |
| 28 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 fly | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 fly | advmod |
| 30 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 covered | advcl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 glass | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 glass | det |
| 33 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fly | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 pets | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 pets | cc |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 pets | amod |
| 37 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 glass | conj |
| 38 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 glass | acl |
| 39 | out | out | ADV | _ | 38 kept | compound:prt |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Pet birds | the cage | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | Pet birds not said here | a safe room | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | |||
| 3 | cover | participle · passive | windows and mirrors | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 4 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not fly | present · do-support | the bird | into the glass and other pets result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into glass=Result | ||||
| 6 | keep out | participle | the glass and other pets not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:205-budgies-and-canaries.lesson:12.
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 ×1, 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.
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