Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 13
The tailorbird pokes holes in leaves and pulls plant fibres or spider silk through them to sew a leaf cup round its nest.
Who acts: tailorbird · What happens: poke, pull, sew · To what, where: holes, leaves, plant fibres, leaf cup
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 (tailorbird), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tailorbird | det |
| 2 | tailorbird | tailorbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pokes | nsubj |
| 3 | pokes | poke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pokes | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 leaves | case |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 holes | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pulls | cc |
| 8 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pokes | conj |
| 9 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fibres | compound |
| 10 | fibres | fibre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pulls | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 silk | cc |
| 12 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 silk | compound |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fibres | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pulls | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sew | mark |
| 17 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pulls | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cup | det |
| 19 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cup | compound |
| 20 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sew | obj |
| 21 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 nest | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nest | nmod:poss |
| 23 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sew | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pokes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poke | present | the tailorbird | holes | leaves | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | |||
| 2 | pull | present | the tailorbird not said here | plant fibres or spider silk | through fibres = fibre | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Theme | |||
| 3 | sew | to-infinitive | the tailorbird not said here | a leaf cup | round tailorbird's nest | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Product |
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:13.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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