Budgies and canaries, sentence 14

A budgie that sits fluffed up and still for a long time may be ill and needs a vet quickly, because small birds hide illness until they are very sick.

Who acts: budgie, small birds, Budgies · What happens: sit, fluff up, be, need, hide · To what, where: vet, illness

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 (budgie, small birds, Budgies), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 budgie	det
2	budgie	budgie	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ill	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sits	nsubj
4	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 budgie	acl:relcl
5	fluffed	fluff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sits	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 fluffed	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 still	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	5 fluffed	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fluffed	obl
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 ill	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 ill	cop
15	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 needs	cc
17	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ill	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 vet	det
19	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 needs	obj
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	17 needs	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hide	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 hide	mark
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 birds	amod
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hide	nsubj
25	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ill	conj
26	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hide	obj
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 sick	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sick	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sick	cop
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 sick	advmod
31	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hide	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 ill	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	a budgie				tree rules
2	fluff up	participle	a budgie not said here		time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	may	a budgie			ill property	tree rules
4	need	present	a budgie not said here	a vet		quickly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme
5	hide	present	small birds	illness			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient
6	is	present	Budgies = budgie			sick property	tree rules

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:14.

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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