Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders, sentence 9

Birds may nest in a nest box in spring, and the size of the hole decides which birds can use it; a small hole keeps out bigger birds that would take the eggs or chicks.

Who acts: Birds, size, small hole, bigger birds · What happens: nest, decide, use, keep out, take · To what, where: nest box, size, bigger birds, eggs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Birds, size, small hole, bigger birds), 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	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nest	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 nest	aux
3	nest	nest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 box	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 box	det
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	compound
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nest	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spring	case
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nest	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 decides	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 decides	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 size	det
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 decides	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hole	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hole	det
16	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 size	nmod
17	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nest	conj
18	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	19 birds	det
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 use	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 use	aux
21	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 decides	ccomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 use	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 birds	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hole	det
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hole	amod
26	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 keeps	nsubj
27	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 decides	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 keeps	compound:prt
29	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 birds	amod
30	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 keeps	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 take	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 take	aux
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 birds	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 eggs	det
35	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 take	obj
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 chicks	cc
37	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 eggs	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 nest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	nest	may	Birds		a nest box	spring	vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	decide	present	the size of the hole				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	use	can	which birds	size			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	keep out	present	a small hole	bigger birds			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
5	take	would	bigger birds	the eggs or chicks			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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:9.

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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