Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 0

Start digging in a garden and a robin will often hop down beside your spade within minutes, because every turn of the soil brings up worms and grubs for it.

Who acts: you, robin, turn · What happens: start, dig, hop down, bring up · To what, where: garden, spade, worms

This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» 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 (you, robin, turn), 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	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Start	xcomp
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 digging	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hop	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 robin	det
8	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hop	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hop	aux
10	often	often	ADV	_	11 hop	advmod
11	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Start	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 hop	advmod
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	15 spade	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 spade	nmod:poss
15	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hop	obl
16	within	within	ADP	_	17 minutes	case
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hop	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brings	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 brings	mark
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 turn	det
21	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brings	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 soil	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 soil	det
24	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	nmod
25	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hop	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 brings	compound:prt
27	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 brings	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grubs	cc
29	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 worms	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brings	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Start	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	dig	gerund	you not said here		a garden			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location
3	hop down	future	a robin		your spade	minute	down, often property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside spade=Trajectory
4	bring up	present	every turn of the soil	worms and grubs			for robin	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent worm=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:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders.lesson:0.

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): 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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