The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 12

Many birds that eat seeds feed their chicks insects for protein, and a pair of blue tits can bring around 10 000 caterpillars to one brood; most birds nest in spring, when insects are most plentiful.

Who acts: Many birds, pair, most birds, insects · What happens: eat, feed, bring around, nest, be · To what, where: seeds, insects, chicks, 000 caterpillars, one brood

This is a sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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 (Many birds, pair, most birds, insects), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feed	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 birds	acl:relcl
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
6	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 chicks	nmod:poss
8	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feed	iobj
9	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feed	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 protein	case
11	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bring	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pair	det
15	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tits	case
17	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tits	amod
18	tits	tit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pair	nmod
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 bring	aux
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 feed	conj
21	around	around	ADV	_	23 000	advmod
22	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 000	compound
23	000	000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 caterpillars	nummod
24	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bring	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 brood	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 brood	nummod
27	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 nest	punct
29	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 birds	amod
30	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 nest	nsubj
31	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 feed	parataxis
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 spring	case
33	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nest	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 plentiful	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 plentiful	advmod
36	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 plentiful	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 plentiful	cop
38	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	39 plentiful	advmod
39	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feed	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 feed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Many birds	seeds					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
2	feed	present	Many birds	insects	birds's chicks			for protein	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent chick=Recipient insect=Theme
3	bring around	can	a pair of blue tits	000 caterpillars		one brood			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Theme to brood=Destination
4	nest	present	most birds				spring		vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	insects					plentiful property	tree rules

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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:12.

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 ×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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