Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 8

Blue tits hang upside down to pick insects from the tips of twigs, and in Britain last century tits learned to open the tops of milk bottles, a trick that spread from bird to bird.

Who acts: Blue tits, century tits, trick · What happens: hang down, pick, learn, open, spread · To what, where: upside, insects, tips, Britain, tops

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 (Blue tits, century tits, trick), 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	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tits	amod
2	tits	tit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hang	nsubj
3	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hang	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 hang	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pick	mark
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hang	advcl
8	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pick	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 tips	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tips	det
11	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pick	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 twigs	case
13	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tips	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 learned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 learned	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Britain	case
17	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 learned	obl
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 century	amod
19	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tits	compound
20	tits	tit	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 learned	nsubj
21	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hang	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 open	mark
23	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 learned	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tops	det
25	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 open	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 bottles	case
27	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bottles	compound
28	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tops	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 trick	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 trick	det
31	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tops	appos
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 spread	nsubj
33	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 trick	acl:relcl
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 bird	case
35	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 spread	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 bird	case
37	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 spread	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hang	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang down	present	Blue tits	upside		down property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Patient
2	pick	to-infinitive	Blue tits not said here	insects	the tips of twigs		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent insect=Theme from tip=Source
3	learn	past	century tits		Britain		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	open	to-infinitive	century tits not said here	the tops of milk bottles			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location top=Theme
5	spread	past	a trick			from bird; to bird	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:8.

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, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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