The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 10

In Britain it is against the law to disturb a wild bird's nest while it is in use, so people watch from far away and avoid cutting hedges from March to August.

Who acts: nest, people · What happens: be, disturb, watch, avoid, cut · To what, where: Britain, nest, use, hedges

This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» 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 (nest, people), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Britain	case
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 law	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 law	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 law	cop
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 law	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 law	det
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 disturb	mark
9	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 law	csubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bird	det
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nest	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 bird	case
14	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disturb	obj
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 use	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 use	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 use	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 use	case
19	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disturb	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 watch	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 watch	advmod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 watch	nsubj
23	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 law	parataxis
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 away	case
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 away	advmod
26	away	away	ADV	_	23 watch	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 avoid	cc
28	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 watch	conj
29	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 avoid	xcomp
30	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cutting	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 March	case
32	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 cutting	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 August	case
34	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 cutting	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 law	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present			Britain		against the law	tree rules
2	disturb	to-infinitive		a wild bird's nest				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nest=Experiencer
3	is	present	nest		use			tree rules
4	watch	present	people					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	avoid	present	people not said here					vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	cut	gerund	people not said here	hedges		august; march		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hedge=Product

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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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