Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 9

Male weaver birds weave hanging nests from grass strips, tying knots with beak and feet; nests at the tips of thin branches are hard for snakes and monkeys to reach, and if the female does not like a nest the male pulls it down and starts again.

Who acts: Male weaver birds, nests, snakes, female, male · What happens: weave, hang, tie, be, reach, not like · To what, where: hanging nests, grass strips, knots, nest

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 weaver birds, nests, snakes, female), 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	3 birds	amod
2	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birds	compound
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 weave	nsubj
4	weave	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 nests	amod
6	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 weave	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 strips	case
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strips	compound
9	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nests	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tying	punct
11	tying	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 weave	advcl
12	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tying	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 beak	case
14	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tying	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 feet	cc
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 beak	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 hard	punct
18	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hard	nsubj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 tips	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tips	det
21	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 nests	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 branches	case
23	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 branches	amod
24	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tips	nmod
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hard	cop
26	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weave	parataxis
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 reach	mark
28	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 reach	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 monkeys	cc
30	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 snakes	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 reach	mark
32	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hard	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 like	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 like	cc
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 like	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 female	det
37	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 like	nsubj
38	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 like	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 like	advmod
40	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hard	advcl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 nest	det
42	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 like	obj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 male	det
44	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 pulls	nsubj
45	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 like	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 pulls	obj
47	down	down	ADP	_	45 pulls	compound:prt
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 starts	cc
49	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 pulls	conj
50	again	again	ADV	_	49 starts	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 weave	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	present	Male weaver birds	hanging nests	grass strips			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent nest=Product from strip=Material
2	hang	gerund						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tie	gerund	Male weaver birds not said here	knots			with beak and feet	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent knot=Patient with beak=Co-Patient
4	is	present	nests at the tips of thin branches				hard property	tree rules
5	reach	to-infinitive	snakes and monkeys					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not like a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	the female	a nest				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nest=Theme
7	pull down	present	the male	nest				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	start	present	the male not said here			again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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: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): 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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