Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 11
Birds crash into windows because they see reflected trees and sky, and stickers on the glass break up the reflection.
Who acts: Birds, stickers · What happens: crash, see, reflect, break up · To what, where: windows, reflected trees, reflection
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 (Birds, stickers), 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 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crash | nsubj |
| 2 | crash | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 windows | case |
| 4 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crash | obl |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 crash | advcl |
| 8 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 trees | amod |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sky | cc |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trees | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 break | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 break | cc |
| 14 | stickers | sticker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 break | nsubj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 glass | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 glass | det |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stickers | nmod |
| 18 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 crash | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 break | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 reflection | det |
| 21 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 break | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crash | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash | present | Birds | into windows result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into window=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | present | birds = bird | reflected trees and sky | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reflect | participle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | break up | present | stickers on the glass | the reflection | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reflection=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:11.
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, R6-punct-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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