The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 9

Blackbirds build cup-shaped nests of grass, moss and mud in hedges and bushes; the female builds and lays about three to five blue-green eggs with brown speckles.

Who acts: Blackbirds, female · What happens: build, shape, lay about · To what, where: shaped nests, hedges, three green eggs

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 (Blackbirds, female), 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	Blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	nsubj
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shaped	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 shaped	punct
5	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 nests	amod
6	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 grass	case
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nests	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moss	punct
10	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grass	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mud	cc
12	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grass	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 hedges	case
14	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bushes	cc
16	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hedges	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 builds	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 female	det
19	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 builds	nsubj
20	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 build	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lays	cc
22	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 builds	conj
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 three	advmod
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 eggs	nummod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 five	case
26	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 three	nmod
27	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 green	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 blue	punct
29	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eggs	amod
30	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lays	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 speckles	case
32	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 speckles	amod
33	speckles	speckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 eggs	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 build	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	present	Blackbirds	shaped nests of grass and moss and mud	hedges and bushes		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product
2	shape	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	build	present	the female				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	lay about	present	the female not said here	three green eggs		with brown speckles	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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:9.

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, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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