Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 12

Male bowerbirds in Australia build a bower of sticks, which is not a nest but a stage to impress females, and some decorate it with blue flowers, berries and bottle tops.

Who acts: Male bowerbirds, bower, some · What happens: build, not be, impress, decorate · To what, where: bower, nest, females

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» 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 (Male bowerbirds, bower, some), 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	Male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bowerbirds	amod
2	bowerbirds	bowerbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bowerbirds	nmod
5	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bower	det
7	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 build	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sticks	case
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bower	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nest	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 nest	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nest	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 nest	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nest	det
15	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bower	acl:relcl
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 stage	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stage	det
18	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nest	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 impress	mark
20	impress	impress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stage	acl
21	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 impress	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 decorate	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 decorate	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 decorate	nsubj
25	decorate	decorate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 build	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 decorate	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 flowers	case
28	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flowers	amod
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 decorate	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 berries	punct
31	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flowers	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 tops	cc
33	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tops	compound
34	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flowers	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 build	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	present	Male bowerbirds in Australia	a bower of sticks		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bower=Product
2	not is a	present	a bower of sticks	a nest but a stage		tree rules
3	impress	to-infinitive	a bower of sticks not said here	females		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus female=Experiencer
4	decorate	present	some	nest	with blue flowers and berries and bottle tops	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with flower=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:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:12.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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