Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 14
Feeding huge crowds of pigeons with bread makes too many pigeons, and birds packed in crowds spread mess and illness more easily.
Who acts: Feeding, birds · What happens: feed, make, pack, spread · To what, where: huge crowds, many pigeons, birds, crowds, mess
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 (Feeding, 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 | Feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 makes | csubj |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crowds | amod |
| 3 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Feeding | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pigeons | case |
| 5 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crowds | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 bread | case |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Feeding | obl |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 many | advmod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pigeons | amod |
| 11 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 makes | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spread | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spread | cc |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spread | nsubj |
| 15 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 birds | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 crowds | case |
| 17 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 packed | obl |
| 18 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 makes | conj |
| 19 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spread | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 illness | cc |
| 21 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mess | conj |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 easily | advmod |
| 23 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 18 spread | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | 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 | feed | gerund | huge crowds of pigeons | with bread | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Feeding | many pigeons | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pigeon=Product | ||||
| 3 | pack | participle | birds not said here | crowds | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in crowd=Destination | ||||
| 4 | spread | present | birds | mess and illness | easily property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mess=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:14.
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 ×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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