Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?, sentence 15

Most birds have a weak sense of smell and will not abandon a chick because a person touched it; the real danger is moving the chick away from where its parents feed it, and a fluffy bird hopping on the ground is often a fledgling whose parents are near.

Who acts: Most birds, person, real danger, parents, fluffy bird · What happens: have, not abandon, touch, move, feed, hop · To what, where: weak sense, chick, bird, ground, fledgling, smell

This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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 (Most birds, person, real danger, parents), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sense	det
5	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sense	amod
6	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 smell	case
8	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sense	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 abandon	cc
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 abandon	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 abandon	advmod
12	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chick	det
14	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 abandon	obj
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 touched	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 person	det
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 touched	nsubj
18	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 abandon	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 touched	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 moving	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 danger	det
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 danger	amod
23	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 moving	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 moving	aux
25	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 have	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chick	det
27	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 moving	obj
28	away	away	ADV	_	25 moving	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 where	case
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 away	obl
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 parents	nmod:poss
32	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 feed	nsubj
33	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 where	advcl:relcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 feed	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fledgling	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fledgling	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bird	det
38	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bird	amod
39	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fledgling	nsubj
40	hopping	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 bird	acl
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 ground	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ground	det
43	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hopping	obl
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 fledgling	cop
45	often	often	ADV	_	47 fledgling	advmod
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 fledgling	det
47	fledgling	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 moving	conj
48	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	49 parents	nmod:poss
49	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 near	nsubj
50	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 near	cop
51	near	near	ADV	_	47 fledgling	acl:relcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most birds	a weak sense of smell			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	not abandon	future	Most birds not said here	a chick			vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme chick=Source
3	touch	past	a person	bird			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
4	move	present · progressive	the real danger	the chick		away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme chick=Result
5	feed	present	bird's parents	bird			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	hop	gerund	a fluffy bird not said here		the ground		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory
7	is a	present	a fluffy bird	a fledgling		often property	tree rules
8	is	present	parents			near property	tree rules
9	sense			smell			nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:15.

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): no change. 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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