Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 10

City pigeons often get string or hair tangled round their toes, which can cut into the foot; wildlife rescuers carefully remove it.

Who acts: City pigeons, toes, wildlife rescuers · What happens: get, tangle, cut, remove · To what, where: string, foot

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» 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 (City pigeons, toes, wildlife rescuers), 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	City	city	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pigeons	compound
2	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 hair	cc
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 string	conj
8	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 string	acl
9	round	round	ADP	_	11 toes	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 toes	nmod:poss
11	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tangled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cut	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	aux
15	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 toes	acl:relcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 foot	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 foot	det
18	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
20	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rescuers	compound
21	rescuers	rescuer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 remove	nsubj
22	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	23 remove	advmod
23	remove	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 remove	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	City pigeons	string or hair	often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer string=Stimulus
2	tangle	participle		string or hair not said here	round pigeons's toes	tree rules
3	cut	can	pigeons's toes		into the foot	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into foot=Patient
4	remove	present	wildlife rescuers	foot	carefully property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs.lesson:10.

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, 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.

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