Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 6

Robins are fierce defenders of territory; their red breast warns rivals away, and in experiments they attacked even a bunch of red feathers on a stick.

Who acts: Robins, red breast, rivals · What happens: be, warn away, attack · To what, where: fierce defenders, rivals, bunch, experiments

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 (Robins, red breast, rivals), 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	Robins	robin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 defenders	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 defenders	cop
3	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 defenders	amod
4	defenders	defender	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 territory	case
6	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 defenders	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 warns	punct
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 breast	nmod:poss
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 breast	amod
10	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 warns	nsubj
11	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 defenders	parataxis
12	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 warns	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 warns	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 attacked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 attacked	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 experiments	case
17	experiments	experiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 attacked	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 attacked	nsubj
19	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 warns	conj
20	even	even	ADV	_	22 bunch	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bunch	det
22	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 attacked	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 feathers	case
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feathers	amod
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bunch	nmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 stick	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 stick	det
28	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 attacked	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 defenders	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Robins	fierce defenders		of territory	tree rules
2	warn away speech: warn	present	defenders's red breast	rivals		away property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rival=Recipient
3	attack	past	rivals = rival	a bunch of red feathers	experiments	on a stick	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=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:6.

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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