The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 2

Before sunrise the blackbird and the robin start singing to claim their patch, and soon a blackbird flies past with a beak full of moss and mud for her nest.

Who acts: blackbird · What happens: start, sing, claim, fly · To what, where: patch

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 (blackbird), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	2 sunrise	case
2	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 start	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blackbird	det
4	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 start	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 start	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 robin	det
7	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blackbird	conj
8	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 start	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 claim	mark
11	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 singing	advcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 patch	nmod:poss
13	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 claim	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flies	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flies	cc
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 flies	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 blackbird	det
18	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flies	nsubj
19	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 start	conj
20	past	past	ADV	_	19 flies	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 beak	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 beak	det
23	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flies	obl
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 beak	amod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 moss	case
26	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 full	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mud	cc
28	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 moss	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 nest	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 nest	nmod:poss
31	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 moss	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 start	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	the blackbird and the robin		sunrise		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the blackbird and the robin not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	claim speech: other	to-infinitive	the blackbird and the robin not said here	blackbird's patch			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent patch=Topic
4	fly	present	a blackbird			with a beak; past, soon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:2.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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