Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight, sentence 4

They have no teeth, so a hen swallows little pebbles that grind food in a muscly gizzard, and that white splat on the car is not poo at all but the bird's version of wee.

Who acts: Birds, hen, little pebbles, white splat · What happens: have, swallow, grind, not be · To what, where: teeth, little pebbles, food, muscly gizzard, poo, all

This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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 (Birds, hen, little pebbles, white splat), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swallows	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 swallows	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hen	det
8	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swallows	nsubj
9	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pebbles	amod
11	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 swallows	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 grind	nsubj
13	grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pebbles	acl:relcl
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grind	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 gizzard	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 gizzard	det
17	muscly	muscly	ADJ	_	18 gizzard	amod
18	gizzard	gizzard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grind	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 poo	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 poo	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 splat	mark
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 splat	amod
23	splat	splat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poo	nsubj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 car	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 car	det
26	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 splat	nmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 poo	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 poo	advmod
29	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 poo	nmod
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 version	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bird	det
34	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 version	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 bird	case
36	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 all	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 wee	case
38	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 version	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Birds = bird	no teeth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	swallow	present	a hen	little pebbles		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Patient
3	grind	present	little pebbles	food	a muscly gizzard	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	not is a	present	white splat on the car	poo	all	tree rules

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:033-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight.lesson:4.

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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