Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 7
A blackbird tilts its head on the lawn while looking, and maybe listening, for worms; only males are black, while females are brown, which helps them hide on the nest.
Who acts: blackbird, males, females, blackbirds · What happens: tilt, look, listen, be, help, hide · To what, where: head, lawn, blackbirds, nest
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 (blackbird, males, females, blackbirds), 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 blackbird | det |
| 2 | blackbird | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tilts | nsubj |
| 3 | tilts | tilt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tilts | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 lawn | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lawn | det |
| 8 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tilts | obl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 looking | mark |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 tilts | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 listening | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 listening | cc |
| 13 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 14 listening | advmod |
| 14 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 looking | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 worms | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 worms | case |
| 17 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 listening | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 males | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 males | advmod |
| 20 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 black | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 black | cop |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tilts | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brown | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 brown | mark |
| 25 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 brown | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 brown | cop |
| 27 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 black | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 helps | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 helps | nsubj |
| 30 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 black | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 helps | obj |
| 32 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 helps | xcomp |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 nest | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 nest | det |
| 35 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hide | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tilts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tilt | present | a blackbird | robin's head | the lawn | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on lawn=Location | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | a blackbird not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | listen | gerund | a blackbird not said here | for worms; maybe property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for worm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | males | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | females | brown property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | help | present | blackbirds = blackbird | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | hide | infinitive | blackbirds = blackbird not said here | the nest | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nest=Location |
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:7.
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 ×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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