What a child can do for nature, sentence 10

Bird feeders help most in winter and must be kept clean; bread and salty food are poor food for birds and ducks, because bread fills them up without giving the goodness they need.

Who acts: Bird feeders, bread · What happens: help, keep, be, fill up, give, need · To what, where: poor food, feeders, goodness

This is a sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» 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 (Bird feeders, bread), 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	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feeders	compound
2	feeders	feeder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	nsubj
3	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 help	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 help	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 kept	aux:pass
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 help	conj
11	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kept	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 food	punct
13	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 food	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 food	cc
15	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 food	amod
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bread	conj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 food	cop
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 food	amod
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	parataxis
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 birds	case
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 food	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ducks	cc
23	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 birds	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fills	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	27 fills	mark
26	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fills	nsubj
27	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 food	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fills	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 fills	compound:prt
30	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 giving	mark
31	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 fills	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 goodness	det
33	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 giving	obj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 need	nsubj
35	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 goodness	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Bird feeders		winter		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	keep	must · passive	Bird feeders not said here			clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»
3	is a	present	bread and salty food	poor food		for birds and ducks	tree rules
4	fill up	present	bread	feeders = feeder			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	give	gerund	bread not said here	the goodness			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Theme
6	need	present	bread	the goodness not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot goodness=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:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:10.

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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