What a child can do for nature, sentence 12

Many baby birds found on the ground are fledglings that have left the nest before they can fly well, and their parents are still feeding them nearby.

Who acts: Many baby birds, fledglings, animals, parents · What happens: find, be, leave, fly, feed · To what, where: Many baby birds, ground, fledglings, nest, animals

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 (Many baby birds, fledglings, animals, 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birds	amod
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 birds	compound
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fledglings	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 birds	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fledglings	cop
9	fledglings	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 left	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 fledglings	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nest	det
14	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 fly	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fly	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fly	aux
18	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 left	advcl
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 fly	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 feeding	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 feeding	cc
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 parents	nmod:poss
23	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 feeding	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 feeding	aux
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 feeding	advmod
26	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fledglings	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 feeding	obj
28	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	26 feeding	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fledglings	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	participle		Many baby birds not said here	the ground			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Many baby birds	fledglings				tree rules
3	leave	present · perfect	fledglings	the nest				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme
4	fly	can	animals = animal				well property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	feed	present · progressive	animals's parents	animals = animal		still	nearby property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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: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. 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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