Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows, sentence 16

The kiwi of New Zealand is a flightless bird that comes out at night and finds worms by smell with nostrils at the tip of its long beak, which no other bird has.

Who acts: kiwi, flightless bird, other bird · What happens: be, come out, find, have · To what, where: flightless bird, worms, tip, long beak

This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» 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 (kiwi, flightless bird, other bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kiwi	det
2	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bird	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 New	case
4	New	New	PROPN	_	2 kiwi	nmod
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 New	flat
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bird	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
8	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bird	amod
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 comes	nsubj
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bird	acl:relcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 comes	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 comes	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 finds	cc
16	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 comes	conj
17	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 finds	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 smell	case
19	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 finds	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 nostrils	case
21	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 finds	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 tip	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tip	det
24	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 finds	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 beak	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 beak	nmod:poss
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beak	amod
28	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tip	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 has	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 has	obj
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 bird	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bird	amod
33	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 has	nsubj
34	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 beak	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kiwi of New	a flightless bird				tree rules
2	come out	present	a flightless bird			night		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	find	present	a flightless bird not said here	worms	the tip of kiwi's long beak		by smell; with nostrils	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent worm=Theme at tip=Asset
4	have	present	no other bird	kiwi's long beak				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:16.

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. 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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