Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 13

Fledglings often leave the nest before they can fly well and are still fed by their parents, so a feathered baby bird on the ground is usually best left alone.

Who acts: Fledglings, parents · What happens: leave, fly, feed · To what, where: nest, feathered baby bird

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 (Fledglings, parents), 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	Fledglings	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 leave	advmod
3	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nest	det
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 fly	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fly	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leave	advcl
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 fly	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fed	cc
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fed	aux:pass
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 fed	advmod
14	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fly	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 parents	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 parents	nmod:poss
17	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bird	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	30 left	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bird	det
21	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bird	amod
22	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bird	compound
23	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 left	nsubj:pass
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bird	nmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 left	aux:pass
28	usually	usually	ADV	_	30 left	advmod
29	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 left	advmod
30	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 leave	parataxis
31	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 left	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	Fledglings	the nest		often property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme
2	fly	can	Fledglings = fledgling			well property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feed	present · passive	birds's parents		still		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	leave	present · passive		a feathered baby bird on the ground		alone, usually, well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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:13.

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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