Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 10

Most birds have a poor sense of smell and will not reject a chick that a person touched, but it is still best to leave wild babies alone.

Who acts: Most birds, person · What happens: have, not reject, touch, be, leave, sense · To what, where: poor sense, chick, wild babies, smell

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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), 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	poor	poor	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 reject	cc
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 reject	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 reject	advmod
12	reject	reject	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chick	det
14	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reject	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 touched	obj
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	14 chick	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 best	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 best	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 best	expl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 best	cop
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 best	advmod
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 have	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 leave	mark
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 best	csubj
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 babies	amod
28	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 leave	obj
29	alone	alone	ADV	_	26 leave	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most birds	a poor sense of smell			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	not reject	future	Most birds not said here	a chick			vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme
3	touch	past	a person	a chick			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Co-Theme
4	is	present	Most birds not said here		still	good property	tree rules
5	leave	to-infinitive		wild babies		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
6	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:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.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, R8-pos-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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