Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows, sentence 3

Others are tricksters: a cuckoo leaves its egg for a small reed warbler to raise, and a lyrebird copies a camera shutter and a chainsaw.

Who acts: Others, cuckoo, lyrebird · What happens: be, leave, raise, copy · To what, where: tricksters, egg, camera shutter

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 (Others, cuckoo, lyrebird), 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	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tricksters	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tricksters	cop
3	tricksters	trickster	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 leaves	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cuckoo	det
6	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaves	nsubj
7	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tricksters	parataxis
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 egg	nmod:poss
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaves	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 warbler	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 warbler	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 warbler	amod
13	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 warbler	compound
14	warbler	warbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 egg	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 raise	mark
16	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 leaves	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 copies	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 copies	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lyrebird	det
20	lyrebird	lyrebird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 copies	nsubj
21	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 leaves	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 shutter	det
23	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shutter	compound
24	shutter	shutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 copies	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 chainsaw	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 chainsaw	det
27	chainsaw	chainsaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shutter	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tricksters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Others	tricksters		tree rules
2	leave	present	a cuckoo	cuckoo's egg	for a small reed warbler	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent egg=Theme for warbler=Recipient
3	raise	to-infinitive	a cuckoo not said here			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	copy	present	a lyrebird	a camera shutter and a chainsaw		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=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:035-birds-of-every-kind.lesson:3.

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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