Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 3
A garden is a busy bird town, with blackbirds listening and looking for worms, blue tits hanging upside down, tiny wrens shouting their songs and, at dusk, starlings swirling in clouds of thousands.
Who acts: garden, blackbirds, blue tits, tiny wrens, starlings, wrens · What happens: be, listen, look, hang, shout, swirl · To what, where: busy bird town, upside, songs, clouds, thousands
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 (garden, blackbirds, blue tits, tiny wrens), 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 garden | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 town | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 town | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 town | compound |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 listening | punct |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 listening | mark |
| 10 | blackbirds | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 listening | nsubj |
| 11 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 town | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looking | cc |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 listening | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 worms | case |
| 15 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tits | punct |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tits | amod |
| 18 | tits | tit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 worms | conj |
| 19 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 tits | acl |
| 20 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hanging | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 upside | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 down | punct |
| 23 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wrens | amod |
| 24 | wrens | wren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shouting | nsubj |
| 25 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 hanging | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 songs | nmod:poss |
| 27 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shouting | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 starlings | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dusk | punct |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 dusk | case |
| 31 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 swirling | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dusk | punct |
| 33 | starlings | starling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 listening | conj |
| 34 | swirling | swirl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 starlings | acl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 clouds | case |
| 36 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 swirling | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 thousands | case |
| 38 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 clouds | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 town | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a garden | a busy bird town | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | blackbirds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | blackbirds not said here | for worms and blue tits | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for worm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hang | gerund | blue tits not said here | upside | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | gerund | tiny wrens | wrens's songs | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic | ||||
| 6 | swirl | gerund | starlings not said here | clouds of thousands | dusk | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location | |||
| 7 | sing | wrens = wren | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | cloud | thousands | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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:3.
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 ×2. 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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